Posts Tagged “extinction”

If you have too many mouths to feed and too little food then somebody is going to starve. It is an unpleasant thought but it is also common sense.

At the same time it is presently thought that the proper management of land resources would easily feed the World’s populations and in my view this is take our eyes off the ball. The world human population is growing and it is only a matter of time before the natural Earth is unable to sustain those increasing mouths.

Even if we could sustain steadily growing populations why on Earth would we? The World’s resources are finite and all we would achieve with a maxed-out population would be a miserable existence of global scarcity where there are no rich and poor nations because we would all be poor with a very tiny elite running the show. Until, that is, the masses below usurp them in protest and ruin the delicate balance in a fashion not too dissimilar to when the Africans kicked the British out and ransacked the food producing resources.

By the time such events come to pass the world populations would be living in such destitute poverty that getting their hands on the day’s ration would be all that would be important to them. Proper educational systems would falter and degenerate. Most people would be out of work on welfare rations and a few would thank their lucky stars that they have work and can watch television reports of grown men batting balls around a patch of grassy land unnaturally stored within an oversized basement.

The intelligence of individuals would diminish from generation to generation, ever more concerned with claiming food, stealing and reproducing in secret as archaic but necessary bans on child-bearing are put in force by a scanty overbearing governing structure struggling to retain control, choking upon the fruits of predecessors’ corruption.

Diseases would run rampant and claim hundreds of thousands of lives per epidemic. So regular would these be that the few remaining astute minds might begin to suspect a deliberate human origin to them. However it would be in vain as new citizens are born at a faster rate than the population can be sabotaged.

This is the future that we all are heading to if we do not begin to take the issue of over population seriously now rather than sooner. It has happened before around the Mediterranean in ages gone past. There is no reason why it cannot happen again and the writing is on the wall with species being hunted close to extinction to satisfy our wants for food.

Yes this is a pessimistic interpretation of our future prospects. Do we want to learn too little too late? Do you?