" I am not a climate change scare monger - I am more of a human overpopulation scare monger since that is the root of *all* environmental problems..."

Well, I have said nearly the same thing on various Mudcat topics for years.

We do not have a water crisis in the western US, we have a people crisis (as in too many).

Same thing with wars. Mostly caused by the fact that a given group has inadequate amount of land that they control for their population. They think the answer is to land that belongs to others. See Albania, et al.

Perhaps someone can explain why we have a "climate change summit" going on right now, not a "population crisis summit"?

Rain forests? Being cut down to make room for excess people.

It would be funny if it weren't so sad, but the Climate Summit folks meeting right now in Denmark to stop C0₂ emissions, arrived in 1500 limousines and 150 large poluting airplanes.