We have an environmental crisis because we have a people crisis

'We have an environmental crisis because we have a people crisis - a crisis of population growth, of wasteful consumption of resources, and a crisis of apathy and inaction.' An environmental crisis is an emergency concerned with the place in which every human lives - the environment. A people crisis is an emergency with the community that inhabits the world environment. A crisis of population growth is a turning point where the environment can …showed first 75 words of 1510 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1510 total…they have only themselves to blame for environmental destruction. As for the people in the nations of the South, population growth needs to be slowed possibly by educating women about contraception, economic incentives, people interested in careers, less infant mortality and increasing the cost of children. Apathy and inaction can be reversed by concerted and effective Government policies that encourage personal, social and economic benefits. Apathy must be resisted if our planet is to survive.