Introduction"One might have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property...The neglect of this topic, which in existing states is so common, it is an inexhaustible cause of poverty among citizens and poverty is the mother of both revolution and crime." This quote does not come from any professional catastrophist or modern writer, nor even from an ecologist or historian. Aristotle said this, even though he lived in a time when the population was four percent of what it is today. People have been concerned about overpopulation since the period before Christ. This leads to the question of how something as bad as overpopulation managed to get so out of control. So out of control, in fact, that overpopulation may pose the greatest threat to life on this planet. The reason is that overpopulation is downplayed and buried in the list of all other environmental problems. Some specialists have studied why population control is still a taboo topic. They examine why so many still argue that overpopulation is not serious, and anyone who believes there are too many humans is a misanthropic pessimist. I will answer the question: how and why is overpopulation ignored and what actions should be taken? I will examine how publications and politicians avoid placing a proportionately accurate amount of blame on overpopulation for global crises, as well as making connections that strengthen existing arguments. Then I will move on to the reasons why the media, government and environmental NGOs deny addressing the problem of overpopulation. In this article I will argue that this topic is extremely neglected and has been put off for too long. I will also contribute to this topic by making links that... middle of paper......hicago Public Media and Ira Glass. “Hot in my backyard.” This American Life produced by WBEZ Chicago. distributed by Public Radio International. May 17th. 2013.Kaiman, Jonathan. “After three decades, time is running out for China's one-child policy.” theguardian.com. Guardian News and Media, 1 February 2014. Web. 3 May 2014. Greene, Margret, Joshi, Shareen, Robles, Omar., By choice, not by change - Family planning, human rights and development, New York, UNFPA, 2012. Print.Paul R. Ehrlich, The Population Bomb (New York: Ballantine Books, 1968). Prologue.Reed, Sarah O. The Sierra Club's publication of Paul Ehrlich's The Population Bomb, 1968: Wilderness-Thinking, Neo-Malthusianism, and Anti-Humanism. Thesis. Wesleyan University, 2008. Middletown: Honors College, 2008. Web.