Climate change: Overpopulation or overconsumption? Maybe both?
As climate change is ravaging our planet, it seems like the majority of us carry on with our usual lives ignoring the most serious threat that humans and other species have ever faced, at least since the last mass extinction. On my rare visits to shopping centres I'm always disgusted by the view of most shops selling thousands of unnecessary, disposable items which must have produced tons of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere. While the ice caps continue melting, the oceans suffer from increased acidification and natural disasters occur more and more frequently, humans manufacture and buy things they don't need and will hardly ever use. That depresses me a lot. While recently the problem of pollution generated by the industries is finally being addressed, the media and several climate and nature experts especially in Europe, the US and Canada often bring our attention on overpopulation. One example is the influential natural historian and presenter Sir David Attenborou