From Iain Climie, Whitchurch, Hampshire, UK
Fewer people would be helpful, but there are two key caveats to this. Firstly, Paul Ehrlich went on to qualify his book The Population Bomb by noting that a well-off US family could have the same impact on resources as a Bangladeshi village. Secondly, deaths have to exceed births – we can all moan about others’ kids, but few of us would reject longer, healthy lives.
The amount of waste in the world beggars belief. We need to tackle this.
