Jack Hart, former managing editor of the Portland Oregonian says that controlling population is the only real answer to our environmental problems. Cut and paste this link to your browser bar to read his op-ed piece: http://www.populationmedia.org/2009/05/27/treading-on-a-taboo-overpopulation-in-america/

In the recent article in the journal Building, Research & Information "The ecological crisis and self-delusion:implications for the building sector," William Rees writes that, "The world's top ecologists and climate scientists tell us that global civilisation is on a collision course with biophysical reality ... we have 'overshot' long-term carrying capactiy ... staying on our growth-based path to global development virtually guarantees eventual catastrophe for billions of people." Yet despi… Continue

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http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2009/05/27/opinion/commentary/z1542fd2c43455508882575ac00594897.txt

In an excellent article, the U.S. based organization Population-Environment Balance explodes some of the myths that are used by "smart growth" proponents and concludes that the only real solution to our environmental problems is population growth control.
http://www.balance.org/articles/sprawl.html

A study of 15,000 people done by professors of Dublin City University and the University of California concludes that social interaction declines with increases in urban density. But we already know this intuitively as we have all experience big cities to be less friendly than smaller communities. This is yet another blow to the "smart growth" crowd that wants to cram all of us into high density urban centres.
http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature255.htm