Pulitzer prize-winning reporter, Chris Hedges' article, "We are Breeding Ourselves to Extinction" succeeds in articulating exactly what most of us humans avoid these days, the inevitable pink and blue overpopulation elephant in the middle of the room we call planet earth. Population control is not only unpopular in general, it is something we seem to go out of our way to avoid. Even environmentalist Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" does not address the issue of of overpopulation and its painfully obvious impact on global ciimate change, at all. Perhaps the truth of overpopulation and its impact on the environment and the future of humanity is the ultimate and unspeakable inconvenience. 

Citing the work of scientist James Lovelock, Hedges argues that unless we begin to practice vigorous population control, all attempts to stop environmental degradation will be futile. 

My grandmother used to teach me that the questions and issues people avoid most are EXACTLY the ones that should be answered and addressed....and usually immediately if not sooner. 

So where in the world does this leave us as sexuality educators,...