This blog was set up to highlight the facts on population growth in Ireland and to a lesser degree the facts on population growth globally.
"Make a list of all the environmental and social problems that afflict us and our poor battered planet. Not just the extinction of species and animals and plants, that fifty years ago was the first signs of impending global disaster, but traffic congestion, oil prices, pressure on the health service , the growth of mega-cities, migration patterns, immigration policies, unemployment, the loss of arable land, desertification, famine, increasingly violent weather, the acidification of the oceans, the collapse of fish stocks, rising sea temperatures, the loss of rain forest, war. The list goes on and on. But they all share an underlying cause. Every one of these global problems, environmental as well as social becomes more difficult, and ultimately impossible, to solve with ever more people".
Sir David Attenborough 2013.
“I've never seen a problem that wouldn’t be easier to solve with fewer people, or harder, and ultimately impossible, with more". Sir David Attenborough 2009.
http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/
