population growth. It drives hunger, unemployment, pollution, resource exhaustion, political instability,.... In systems terminology it is a control variable with many output variables.
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#12Its equal access to opportunity. Population would not be a problem, given level of education has a direct correlation to number of children. And there is more than enough food to sustain the planet
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#13Food production. Even today there are people without enough food. The planet isn't getting any bigger while the population grows each day.
I would make a slight correction to this. There is enough food. It is just in the wrong places. It is a cost / distribution problem.
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#14War & hunger.
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#15unethical businesses - Why? Because they do anything for money. They don't care about effects to the environment, they don't value human life and they treat employees as slaves (might not be same everywhere).
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#16Greed.
It's the only thing that destroys everything it touches. And it often has massive reach and repercussions.