No, it is not the “end of the world”
Jumatatu 28 Septemba, 2009 - 250 ViewsFor all our worries about ecology, carbon dioxide emissions, overpopulation and possible scarcity of food, the world is definitely not going to end.
Humans are yet not good enough to bring about a complete destruction of our planet, but they are quite good enough to bring about the destruction of themselves.
It is then possible that in not so many years, the planet will go on without us, maybe with other forms of life that do not bring a systematic destruction of the planet resources.
Even if we don't manage to bring upon us a complete destruction of all human beings just to fulfil the needs of our myopic greed, it is very much possible that in a few years there will be much less humans and that they will be living in very uncomfortable conditions.
There is no need to list here all the problems one by one, but let's make just a short list of the risks we are taking:
1) The environment will be severely damaged, temperatures will change dramatically, and we will live in a very uncomfortable world.
2) Our numbers will increase so much that the space and resources available for each of us (the famous cake) will be reduced drastically. Our life will be very uncomfortable.
This of course is true only if the problem at point one will not have taken care of reducing drastically the world population.
Better not to count on a large scale war or epidemic to reduce “naturally” the world population. The population estimate at this moment is close to the seven billion mark. It would take 90 wars as large as World War II to bring us back to the same number of people we had at the end of WW2. (it is an easy calculation: 7,000 million people now, 2,500 million people at the end of WW2, estimate causalities of WW2 are 50 million people).
3) The planet capacity to produce food is reducing in the moment the population increases and it is getting richer. The richer becomes the population the more food it consumes. Result not enough food for everyone and larger and larger segments of the population will end up without food.
As most of our governments are too greedy and too controlled by special interest groups, we can not count on them to fix the problems. If it is up to them in our old age, and our children and grandchildren, will find ourselves in an world too hot and uncomfortable for our air conditioners and where we will not even be able to call for a pizza delivery.
If our governments can not help us who can help us? No one can help us. We have to help ourselves.
If we try to do it on a single person basis the result we can get is minimal.
If we organize ourselves into communities and cooperatives than the impact of our efforts can be noticeable and really make a difference.
