Thus The New York Times today. “From the Arabian Peninsula to northern India to California’s Central Valley, nearly a third of the world’s thirty-seven largest aquifers are being drained faster than they are being replenished, according to a recent study led by scientists at the University of California at Irvine,” elaborates the newspaper. The unsustainable pumping of groundwater endangers up to two-billion people. Although aquifers are common goods, every farmer whose land is above one of them behaves as though the water is his and his alone. “If I stop pumping,” each of them reasons, “my neighbor will keep pumping.” And there is no national or global authority to control the vital resource. The declining supply of groundwater will eventually endanger the production of food with dire consequences far and wide. The article leaves the rest to the reader’s imagination, but it is clear that climate change is not the only problem facing the human race at this time. There are many other problems beside the diminishing supply of groundwater, as well, but they all have a common cause: human overpopulation. For some reason, articles like this one always skip the common cause, which appears to be a dash too awkward to even hint at. What is more, all the newspapers of renown respect the taboo to the letter.