Topic: OPT's Green Planet Petition - the Really Big Ask

[Derek]

With world population set to rise 40 per cent by 2050, human numbers are a crucial element of ecological sustainability and the biggest underlying cause of many environmental problems. In the UK, population is projected to increase by a sixth - 10 million people - in less than 25 years. Yet population has become the issue no one wants to talk about - ignored by governments, politicians, environmental groups and the media because it's too 'sensitive'. OPT believes the planet can't take any more people. It wants the UK to set an example to the world by adopting a national population policy - aimed, first, at stabilising and decreasing our numbers to what is environmentally sustainable and, second, maintaining them at that level (zero population growth).

http://www.optimumpopulation.org/opt.petition.html