Over population is becoming our normal experience. Growth is our way of life. Sustaining it can not and will not happen forever.
Sure, it’s hard to tell a new family to limit the number of children they have biologically, and that if they want a bigger family, opt to adopt the rest. It’s hard to tell anyone what to do with such personal life decisions. It doesn’t seem right. It’s also difficult to understand how we will curb population growth without creating a new set of priorities, socially acceptable standards or restricting a natural right.
The animal kingdom has its own set of problems. Take Lot #7. Flowers are growing everywhere, with an abundance of birds and animals. Life is moving forward for that space of land. How long will that last? Until Lot #7’s owner begins work on a new project, building a business headquarters on Lot #7 in the new office park, where people will have jobs.
Progress will come to Lot #7. The wildlife, animals, birds and amphibians will move on or disappear. More people will be born, and will need jobs to support their families.
Some feel this challenge will take care of itself. Perhaps humanity will start a World War, encounter famine, disease, or any number of other cataclysmic events that might drastically cut down the population.
Is there another way? I think about my children and theirs every day as I travel the world. This challenging subject is critical to contemplate. Of course, many people are too busy to be concerned with problems like this. These issues are just not important in their day to day life.
We cannot rely on government. The focus there is growth and profit, environmental de-regulation, replacement of laws made to protect endangered species, perpetuating fossil fuels that are destroying our planet’s environment, and a blatant disregard for science.
It seems to always be rush hour. Was traffic always this bad? Read up on it. It’s worse than ever before and growing. For thousands of years human population grew slowly then in the last 100 years it exploded, tripling its rate exponentially. There are over two thirds more people on the planet now, than when I was born, and millions more than there ever has been. We are building new roads, more cars, more houses. Growth is what our economy is based on and it’s a dangerous model. Perpetual growth is a cancer.
We don’t know where this is going.
-NY