My Letter to Bill McKibben and the folks at 350.org

I recently attended two speeches by Bill McKibben of 350.org, who I highly respect for his years of effort to help reduce Global Warming

I was unhappy with both speeches, as they did not present any truly Global efforts to help resolve the World's problems.  So I wrote to him.......   Read on.......
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Hi 350 Team:
This note is actually directed to Bill McKibben who I had the pleasure of seeing at the recent "Strafford Forum" on August 15th, 2013, and then the following morning at the opening of the "Our Children, Climate, Faith Symposium" also held in Strafford, VT.  I attended both speeches by Bill because I was hoping that he would outline concrete steps being taken to address the global warming situation

Sadly I was disappointed! 

Thursdays Forum was mainly aimed at talking to the fans and the converted, Fridays was a feel good, slide show of what 350 has achieved throughout the world.

The only things seriously focused upon were how good is Vermont in its thinking and support of 350 initiatives, a total focus on the Tar Sands pipeline, and how we should all try to get arrested and go to jail in support.

Let me say right now that in no way do I minimize the time and effort that Bill and the 350 team have played over many years in trying to get greater recognition of the perils facing the World and Civilization in general, but these two speeches, the first that I have had the chance to absorb in person were trivial

The Tar Sands Pipeline is but one tiny piece of the global problem, Vermont is but a drop in the global bucket, the USA is only 4% of the world's population and only 1.88% of global landmass and nothing is being said about truly global solutions to the problem.

For instance why is no one talking about global overpopulation, and the staggering increases in population that are projected to occur over the next few decades?

The size of the global population IS the single biggest problem that the world faces.  If the population of the world was say 50% less than it is right now we would not be seeing global warming, we wouldn't have a food crisis, a water crisis and an energy problem.  Almost ALL of the world's problems are caused by there being too many people on this Earth.

So why is no one talking about this?  Why is 350.org not raising this issue and demanding some global effort to stabilize and ultimately reduce the fertility rates around the world, especially in third world countries

All of the efforts of 350.org, and, assuming that they will all be successful,  will be for naught if the global population grows to 9.5 billion by 2050,  and way beyond 10 billion by the turn of the century.

And, even if you believe that global populations will begin to flatten out, or maybe even reduce, there will still be infinitely more people on this planet than it can sustain

A sensible, thoughtful, educated, caring, benevolent and reasonable global fertility rate reduction program is the only serious medium to long term solution to the Earth's problems
Peter D. Revers