アレックス・オノルドさんのインスタグラム写真 - (アレックス・オノルドInstagram)「Today my environmental musings are taking a slightly different direction: I’ve always been troubled by the lack of inherent fairness in the world. So much of our lives are a product of luck - when and where we are born, how we’re raised, whether we have access to adequate nutrition and a decent education. We choose none of those things and yet they play a huge role in defining how our lives will unfold. I’ve seen from some of the comments on the last few posts that a lot of people think that over population is the biggest obstacle to any major environmental improvements. And it’s true that there are an awful lot of people on earth. But it’s also true that birth rates have been dropping all over the world and that population growth is leveling. The healthier and wealthier (a relative term) people become the fewer kids they have. So for all the folks who wring their hands and think that nothing can be done about climate change because there are too many people they should instead focus on women’s access to health care and education. The thing is, a lot of overpopulation arguments are tinged with a hint of racism. People seem to think that “our country is fine, but those other countries have too many kids.” But really our country (the US) leads the world in per capita carbon emissions. We are the problem, not a country like Niger (which leads the world in birth rate but has .5% of our per capita emissions). And our higher emissions don’t even make us happier or healthier. The happiest countries in the world are Finland or Denmark and they each have roughly half our per capita emissions. Maybe we’re doing it wrong… A few last thoughts: the US wastes 40% of it’s food. In a world where almost a billion people face food insecurity, that’s insanity. I see this idea linked to the matter of over population - if we in the US are really concerned about overpopulation we should be focusing our incredible material excess on helping others. @jimmychin pic from Free Solo of me experiencing a decided lack of population in the Taghia Gorge, Morocco.」5月1日 0時08分