“It is long past time that we started to deal with the cause of the problems and not just the symptoms…”

A tip of the hat to a true growthbuster, George Plumb, executive director of Vermonters for a Sustainable Population. George submitted an articulate essay to VTDigger.org about World Population Day (it’s not to late for you to do so, too). George does an excellent job of arguing for taking local responsibility for a global issue. That is the only way we can inch forward toward true sustainability. Here’s a taste, but read the entire essay here.

“Our population adds to the world’s population and the world’s problems. We can’t say “Oh, we are only a population of 626,000 compared to the world’s seven billion, so our population size doesn’t matter.” Of course it matters, and to not acknowledge this truth is simply not fair.”