This day our news is dominated by Trump announcing he intends to run again and the hailing of the eight billion birth. The wider context is growing global tensions and the green agenda. I do not think there is one precise set of answers (save those of Jesus Christ and they are not actually precise). It is better to commit to directions of travel. I was born in 1959 when world population was three billion - https://www.populationpyramid.net/world/1959/ . For one lifetime this is utterly incredible and it is world population that more than anything else has created the green crisis. I have long appreciated that ordained man Malthus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Robert_Malthus . Crying out to Just Stop Oil is one thing however the diesel engine is one of the most efficient of human inventions. The damage battery cars can do has yet to be really calculated. Electric cars from a central green power source might be better. Bodyshells and roof tiles which are solar generators.
What really brings the planet back into balance is less of us. Less of megacities utterly unable to control plastic waste and the damage that is doing to the oceans. I do not advocate euthanasia. I do believe life is sacred but it stares us in the face that the science of reproduction is hugely wasteful. Jesus even got into this in parables. The way to have less of us should have been the enthusiastic promotion of rubber condoms. I am a rubberman. Those religious leaders who will not encourage the use of condoms are not offering populations hope but many of those same leaders have historically promoted the patriarchy and misogny. The situation is too critical to accommodate this any longer. After eating, the male sexual urge is one of the strongest forces on the planet and it needs to be managed (I do not say curtailed or destroyed but managed).
And yes the condom and the delusional leader are linked. How many children do Trump and Johnson have? Five and seven respectively. I hope humanity will come to sense and realise there are simple solutions but all the experts agree we are right on the edge of the precipice.
