If continuing and unsustainable growth in the global human population is accepted as the principal cause of accelerating environmental/natural resource degradation, what is keeping the global science community from more forcefully engaging the key political establishments to educate and drive the radical changes required, to lead the world towards a level of reasonable sustainability? How can we get them to take on such a role?

Without leadership and urgent government action, to date sadly lacking, we are likely to reach crisis point, leading to global catastrophe. Continual waffle and ‘feel good’ measures such as ‘cap & trade’ legislation are unlikely to achieve any real positive/timely result.

Given that political administrations tend to be driven by poling statistics/insuring incumbency, it would seem that the general public must somehow become engaged in a grassroots driven campaign to give voice to the very real issues raised by the global science community. Without a sense of urgency we will reach a point of ‘no return’ and, ‘too little too late’ to achieve any meaningful result.

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