Ok point taken. But I was talking specifically about threats to small island endemic monitors in Indonesia, where I believe that the threat from the pet trade is significant and problems of population pressure are less immediate. The population problem is probably at its worst here in the Philippines where birth control is considered "a sin" and human growth is running at close to 2% per year, by far the highest in Asia. It is a real problem but I am uncomfortable with the idea that there are "too many people" when in fact a small minority of us are consuming far more resources than everybody else. There are only too many people because everybody believes (with some justification) that they have the right to live the same way we do..... Seven billion people on bicycles might be scary but seven billion of us with SUVs is definiately the end of the world as we known it.....
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