No policies we might develop will bring sustainable solutions to any of our major problems without the US and other nations of the world seriously addressing the issue of world population growth. Though we are many separate nations, we are all inhabitants of a single planet and are all, directly or indirectly, affected by conditions in other countries. We must not abdicate our human responsibility and our intellect to war, disease, and starvation. To appropriately address this significant and substantial issue, I would suggest the Obama administration organize a World Population Summit on the order of the Kyoto Summit as quickly as possible.