Is overpopulation truly a problem?!

Zsolt Hermann
2 min readJul 1, 2020

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More and more people are pointing out that Humanity is a threat to the planet due to overpopulation. And there are various suggestions from restricting the number of children each family can have, to accept voluntary childlessness, and there are more brutal suggestions like forceful sterilization or even “culling” Humanity through wars, targeted plagues, etc…

I do not think we need to suggest or try such things. The problem is that we keep acting according to our own, misguided Human intellect that is inherently self-serving, self-justifying, and utterly subjective.

We need to learn instead to see things through Nature’s laws that govern balance and homeostasis and start living by those laws. Through a unique, purposeful, and practical educational method we can learn and implement these Natural laws in Human societies. That way we will integrate into the Natural system and start sensing it from within.

Then we will know, naturally sense what our actual natural necessities are, what our perfect, complementary role is in the system. And we will also naturally feel how many children we should have according to the balance and available resources of the system.

Only this way can we avoid the previous and present coercive, completely misguided attempts to force on people the number of children they can have, or even forcefully sterilize, punishing people for having or not having children. And of course this way we can avoid all other problems that originate from our inherent incompatibility with nature.

And actually the “threatening overpopulation” does not directly relate to the number of people living, but to our “footprint” which is vastly excessive, way beyond natural necessities. This is what is causing the problems we observe! Thus by adapting ourselves to Nature’s laws that govern balance and homeostasis we can solve this issue without manipulating the number of people alive!

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Zsolt Hermann
Zsolt Hermann

Written by Zsolt Hermann

I am a Hungarian-born Orthopedic surgeon presently living in New Zealand, with a profound interest in how mutually integrated living systems work.

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