Global warming-fact or fiction and how do you propose we tackle it?

[NeoRatt]

I don't really know for sure whether global warming is real or not. Mostly because I haven't read anything to support either side.

But, one thing I do know is that people consume resources and create more pollution more then any other species on the planet. The continued rise in world population is simply unsustainable and will result in our own self-extinction no matter how much we cut back the resources we use. We cannot ever get our consumption level to zero.

So, my solution is quite simple, people need to reduce resource consumption and pollute less, but we also have to focus on educating people on the issues of growing population on a fixed sized planet. Everyone talks about recycle, reduce, and reuse... But, very few governments (if any) are encouraging their population to decrease over time naturally.

Would you rather live on a planet with about 250 Million total people that sustains the planet properly or do you like living on a planet of >6 billion where poverty, strife, and suffering is increasing everywhere? And by the way, population growth isn't really slowing so it will continue to get worse.