Beyond the rhetoric of many of the so called conservationists (I am not referring to anyone on this board), there have been very few suggestions made as to how these problems should be addressed. Over the years many have offered solutions that they thought should be obvious. Population control has been expounded ad nausium for the past forty years, nearly always aimed at the poor in third world areas such as India and Pakistan or in China. Here in the U.S. population control has in fact worked, our birth rate has fallen to a point where we are actually below the replacement level. Our population continues to grow due in large part to immigration, both legal and illegal.
Governments the world over have in one form or another "Encouraged" people to concentrate their presence into cities, it makes for easier control that way. Those same governments have failed miserably in providing even the most rudimentary forms of sanitation available to those that they "encourage" to move into these havens.
The Kyoto accord wants those of us in the more developed nations to join those in the thirld world in their poverty, instead of calling on the governments of the areas where poverty, over population and crowded conditions make things bad to correct their many mistakes, they want the rest of us to come down to their level.
A huge percentage of our fishing fleet lies idle, fishermen out of work and the hulls rusting in order for us to comply with agreements we have made in the international community while nations such as Chile and Peru continue to harvest catches in waters already depleted of many stocks of fish.
Our farmers, the most productive in the world, are encouraged not to grow crops to their full potential. We are discouraged from using the best means of insect and weed control for fear of adding polutants to an already overtaxed ecosystem, yet nobody cares to offer an alternative.
Children and adults die by the ten of thousands each year due to malaria and other insect borne diseases, yet the most effective pesticide of all time (DDT) is banned due to early misuse and ill advised strictures placed upon it by those not wanting to understand that it can be used safely.
Those that own property would prefer that those that don't continue to be in that category, especially if it should infringe on their property boundaries.
So, here we sit with all of our smarts and a mouth full of teeth, just what productive suggestions does anybody here have of fixing this mess? I, for one, admit that I have none.