Overpopulation reigns as one of the most eminent dangers facing mankind today; and conveniently remains tremendously overlooked. Most people can acknowledge the threats of global warming, the lack of food and clean drinking water, the epidemic of nearly 6,000 new children being placed in orphanages each day in the United States alone; sadly, more than 14,000 of them will grow up never having been adopted (“Orphan statistics,” 2017). But, not nearly as many people recognize the root of the problem: the exponential growth in the population of human beings (“Effects of overpopulation,” 2013, Nov. 20). The Earth’s resources are vastly limited and will reach a point of complete, total and utter depletion if a more sustainable global population and way of life is not achieved. The Earth currently supports nearly four times the sustainable human community (“Current population,” 2017). This optimum population, is measured and defined by the European […]