I’ve just returned from a trip to Colorado where I had a first hand look at the results of Boulder’s pioneering open space aquisition program and spoke with two residents who have grappled for years with the issues we deal with here. I’ll be posting a multi-part article about that in the coming days. For now, given the recent passing of Coretta Scott King, it seems appropriate to post a few words on overpopulation from Martin Luther King Jr.:
Unlike plagues of the dark ages or contemporary diseases we do not yet understand, the modern plague of overpopulation is soluble by means we have discovered and with resources we possess. What is lacking is not sufficient knowledge of the solution but universal consciousness of the gravity of the problem and education of the billions who are its victims.