A very interesting letter appeared in the Los Angeles Times today. If there was any doubt about environmental groups being anti-human let it be laid to rest with this. In typical Malthusian fashion, a spokeswoman named Stephanie Feldstein of the Center for Biological Diversity penned a letter that appeared under the title Overpopulation is killing the world’s biodiversity. The reads, in part:

We can’t effectively tackle climate change without looking at our runaway population growth and overconsumption. And it’s not just the climate that’s suffering from infinite growth on our finite planet.

And:

As human population has skyrocketed, so has the rate of wildlife extinction. Species are going extinct at 1,000 to 10,000 times the natural rate, largely driven by the demands for food, water, land and energy of a population that’s doubled in the past 50 years. Our environmentally devastating hunger for meat and fossil fuels has worsened the problem. In short, we’re crowding out the planet’s biodiversity.

The fact that there are so many unoccupied, large spaces on the planet already debunks this notion as there is no carrying capacity for Earth. The claim that natural resources are finite and that humans use too many resources has been debunked long ago. It will not, however, stop environmentalists from making this claim. In the below video, Swedish medical doctor, academic, statistician and public speaker Hans Rosling handily dispels the myth of human overpopulation.