Overpopulation Essay

Overpopulation - The Root of The Problem

The Church of Euthanasia, by many simply tossed aside as artwork or joke, may in fact hold the solution to the world’s troubles in their satirical hands. The church advocates for a single commandment: “thou shalt not procreate”, based upon the four pillars of “suicide, abortion, cannibalism and sodomy”. While clearly intended as provocative artistic hyperbole, there is no doubt that the problem they are calling attention to is in dire need of addressing: Human Overpopulation.

Though Global Warming has received its fair share of media attention - more so recently, in part due to President Obama’s noble efforts of communicating to the public that this phenomenon is, in fact, not a myth - Overpopulation has been largely ignored. This is in dire need of amelioration. If “problems faced by humankind in long-term survival” were to be represented as the solar system, then we would in fact find topics such as Global Warming, malnutrition, and the swindling of resources revolving as planets around Overpopulation as the sun, the centre of gravity. An article published by Marketwatch stated that “denial is killing us”, reminding the reader that the looming and disastrous consequences of Overpopulation are often ignored, overlooked, and lost in the status quo and comfort of our day-to-day world

Not ordinary colonialism, however; Hawking’s solution to our earthly troubles lies in space. “Once we spread out into space and establish independent colonies, our future should be safe”, Hawking reaffirmed at his lecture at the Sydney Opera House. Whether or not this will be a feasible option remains entirely up to the technological progress of the coming years, and the burning question of whether we run out of resources before we manage to leave the earth. In the meantime however, it is quite apparent and direly necessary to take steps to return the human population and its earth to a symbiotic, rather than a parasitic