Friday, November 7, 2008

What's Wrong??

Ever wonder what's wrong with this world? I have. I know many people have. I hear comments all the time, phrases such as "gone to hell in a handbasket", and "what has this world come to?". I look around, and there is evidence everywhere of a very disturbing problem. Increases in the population of gays and lesbians, increases in occurrences of depression and anxiety, dramatic increases in debilitating diseases, increases in birth problems that even 20 years ago would have resulted in death. All this points to one thing. Mother Earth saying "there are too friggin many of you bastards, get off me!!". China knew this eons ago. They enacted some pretty harsh policies in order to get population under control. It didn't work. People are going to reproduce. People are going to overpopulate. We have the unfortunate advantage of having a problem solving intellect. We can figure out how to combat all these physical problems, and we have the ability to ignore the results of thwarting natures attempt to control population. In a popular movie, the human race was likened to a virus. That's not far off. We use resources until they are gone, and move on. Humankind has been farming animals and plants for time beyond measure, but at the point it became necessary to do so to maintain population we were over populated. Nevermind genetically altering food to be more productive. Until we have a magic solution that combines our current lifestyle and maintenance of our resources, we will continue to have major problems.

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