Guest blogger H. Patricia Hynes, a retired Professor of Environmental Health from Boston University School of Public Health, is on the board of the Traprock Center for Peace and Justice.
Mother's Day with its messages of love, respect and gratitude has passed. And we revert to the social, economic, and political realities of women who are mothers, realities airbrushed away for a day.
It's overconsumption, not population growth, that is the fundamental problem: By almost any measure, a small portion of the world's people — those in the affluent, developed world — use up most of the Earth's resources and produce most of its greenhouse gas emissions.
Read more by Fred Pearce:
http://e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2140
Also read:
David Satterthwaite, "The Implications of Population Growth and Urbanization for Climate Change," Environment and Urbanization, vol. 21, no. 2, 2009. Satterthwaite pages 545-567
