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Are Humans A Virus On The Earth?
“Tonight we’re going to party like it’s 1999…”
And so we did.
As website Day of 6 Billion notes, the human world population reached a staggering six billion on or around October 12, 1999. And for some reason, instead of this being a sobering moment of world reflection, we jumped up and down like the idiots we are, cheering and clapping as if it were new year’s eve - and during that hour of TV reportage, another eleven thousand hungry mouths were born.
The Census Bureau’s new projections indicate that the 7 billion marker will be reached in just four more years - by February of 2012. Give or take a month.
World Population Explosion
This means more and more people competing for fewer earthly resources - like oil which leads us to war. It also means more famine; the extinction of other species as we overrun their habitats; the pollution of the seas, the destruction of the ocean’s reefs - and the decomposition of the ozone layer. In fact, when you think about it, most of the problems we face in this world could be mitigated by having fewer people. So tell me, what exactly were we celebrating? The demise of our own planet?
Some have argued that if the entire population of the world stood shoulder to shoulder we could still probably fit on relatively fairly small space - thus they call overpopulation a population hoax. These to fail to realize that we thrive on only about 17% of the world’s surface - they also don’t understand mathematics very well. Because after many thousands of years of population “incubation”, our growth as a species has finally gone noticeably exponential.
Born in the last 10 seconds...
Like multiplying bacteria on a laboratory petri dish, exponential growth is hard to spot at first, but when a critical mass is reached, the numbers explode. Watch this video of the World Population clock at the Columbus Zoo to see exponential population growth in action - and then figure out for yourself just how long it will take from this point before our race has consumed every square inch of livable space this planet.
It is for this reason that environmentalists like GreenPeace and Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson have said mankind is “acting like a virus” and is harming Mother Earth. The analogy is simple, and like a virus we are slowly but surely killing our host.
And props to the Chinese by the way. Because at least they are trying: that’s one kid per family, thank you very much. Meanwhile here in the “first world” west, Catholisism’s criminal Every-Sperm-Is-Sacred doctrine against contraception just leads us closer to the brink of our own extinction.
In the time it took you to read this post and watch the video, the earth’s population grew by about 1260 people.
The human population is currently about 6,738,705,825 - and counting.
Yeah, it’s pretty obvious we’re breeding ourselves into oblivion. We like to cull other animal species when their numbers get too great… (too great for who?!) meanwhile we carry on spreading our numbers all over the planet, gobbling up everything in our path like a swarm of locusts until there’s nothing left!
There are still solutions. Problem is that the only humane solutions are completely terrifying to most of humanity.
1 - reduction of birth rate (and/or)
2 - super rationing of resources to sustainable levels (and/or)
3 - hacking the reproduction mechanic (and/or)
4 - radically reducing human consumption
The most extreme examples of each would be
(1) Fertility laws. Regions receiving an allotment of births and immigrations. Reproduction linked to a criterium to maximize worth of humans and avoid producing non-contributing humans.
(2) Humans living in sterile underground hives. Growing their own food in cavernous hydroponic plots lit by lamps. Minimal living space and consumption rates. Standardization and extreme caution with anything experimental. We could handle about 30 billion humans this way, on thorium reactor energy. Only a few hundred million could live on earth surface.
(3) Spreading a virus that makes every baby born live several years - as an unchanging baby with no developing mental capacity. Only 1% of babies born actually develops into an adult human - the other just die suddenly after a few years, after no development. Parents are left wondering (and caring) if theirs is the one baby that will. Even if parents nadya out and have eight, the percentage is too low to make a dent, and it will keep em busy.
(4) Change the human body by genetic modifications to be more durable, tough. Eventually work towards uploading the human brain. This might be the end result - in the future you can choose to die, or choose to upload into a fully realistic cyberspace. Angelnet? Ideally uploaded minds emigrate into space. Earths fleshbody population is capped on 3 billion, anyone too old HAS to upload or die.
Its funny to bear in mind that in terms of population laws nothing will happen. People will keep breeding until *suddenly* the spark hits the powder keg and VHOOM everyone wants fertility laws. That’ll be around 12 billion humans is my guess. Even then the christians won’t get it till 17 billion.
There are 100 trillion stars, which are all suns. Suns produce life so we are not the only ones. we are but a blip in the radar. But, if, as the theory says, we are a cancer on this earth, which is a living cell, we are starving the cell and will move onto another until we spread and kill all the cells. Cancer/virus/infection?. The only way they can be healed is from medicine and external sources.
So are we the cancer living on a cell?
Are the cells in our bodies galaxies and suns? just like we see when we look outside?
All I’m seeing is more and more people, everywhere! its true we are multiplying quickly. Just like virus’ and such like.
Man is going to kill each other and the government will play the biggest role in out death!