Rampant market taking toll on the planet

IN your enlightening feature on world population (Forum, Oct 22), you lay out the current state of the world in numbers but avoid a real analysis on the inequities facing new citizens of this planet.

There are massive challenges facing the planet, both financial and environmental, but all stemming from an unsustainable economic model.

The problem stems from the fact that we have cravenly allowed an elite to control the economy, and thus society, by handing over control over our own destinies to a privately-controlled market.