Climate Change and Overpopulation.

This brief paper addresses two issues relevant to the phenomenon of climate change. The first involves examining some of the motives that have and continue to contribute to the current situation--both global warming and the broader issue of the ecological damage that our species has done and is doing to the planet. The strongest of these motives is fueled by the ideology of free-market capitalism, which holds that restrictions to the pursuit of economic gain are anathema. The second issue is the question of the relation between overpopulation and the amount of damage being done to our environment; and the motivations for the resistance to acknowledging that overpopulation plays a role in the human produced pollution and environmental degradation we are experiencing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]