Did you know that you are one out of seven billion people and counting living on Earth?
The babies dubbed the seventh billion are symbolic, symbolic of destruction or symbolic of prosperity. Even so, nothing is being done so humanity will not reach their population maximum. China has restricted the number of children you can have, but what about Europe or America, where babies are still unregulated. Soon there will be eight billion and it wont stop there. What will happen when humanity reaches its max because there are already signs of strain on the planet?
With these seven billion people on Earth, hundreds of million are advocating for more tax on the wealthy 1%, a few others are trying to stop fracking and a smaller percent is protesting the Keystone pipeline in the US. What has seven billion plus all of the people that have died accomplished?
Well the boomer generation has created the largest carbon footprint compared to any other generation. They created the giant trash vortex that is now the size of two Texases. Each American family has at least two cars and buys a new car at least every 5 years. Life has become a game to utilize all of the people and make a profit at the lowest expense possible.
At the same time, humans have initiated some of 905 species and 784 from 2006 extinctions and cut down the Amazon rain forest at 25 to 50 acres a minute to accommodate the massive market of seven billion and counting.
At the rate that humanity is expanding what will happen? It seems unrealistic that seven billion of any organism, especially if it the size and expenditure of a human, can exist without destroying the environment. The Earth is already suffering from Global Warming, specie extinction and natural disasters. What do you think?
Hi Erinn,
ReplyDeleteIt is true that as our population grows bigger and bigger we will need to consume more resources. I think this outcome is unavoidable, unless there is some kind of solution that will for sure prevent this. Do you have a solution?
I, too, agree with Alyson. This outcome seems unavoidable unless we can come up with a solution to decrease the population, in other words many wars and many deaths. But that doesn't really sound like a pleasant solution..
ReplyDeleteThis post presents some scary ideas. We have put ourselves in this horrible position and some serious changes need to be made if we are ever going to get out of it. We continue to consume an unprecedented amount of resources and the outcome of this is unavoidable.
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