RE: Could better family planning help slow the effects of climate change?
There needs to be a fundamantal paradigm shift in the way that people relate to the world and each other to resolve these issues. Whilst not remotely religious in the diety worshipping sense I see that the bible actually has most of the answer - the meek shall inherit the earth. As long as humanity careers onward following its instinct to satisfy greed through consumption and appetite for wealth I don't see us lasting much more than a few more generations without natural catastrophic consequence. Unfortunately I think it will come to this to force the paradigm shift unless there's another world war first as an attempt to secure what's left.