We the people.....

Their have been several articles lately in the local print media concerning the human population in the world and eventual demise of our planet and the people on it. It seems as though that their are numerous factors in regard to this trend. Not the least of which in my opinion has been due to our own intelligence. Yeah it seems weird that we as the smart ones on this planet ( or so we think ) are our own worst enemy. We have created problems today with our intelligence... that we cannot fix with the same intelligence.... that created the problem in the first place! In a nutshell I would like to interject a few of my own random thoughts about this subject, not in any particular order, just some knee jerk things that come to mind. Because this is to vast of subject to try and pick apart on this site and I don't want to spend the rest of my life trying to analyse the nuances of demographic populations and the control their of. I think you all would agree.

First and foremost is the advent of agriculture. When you can grow more food you can support more humans. When you have more humans you need more food. Which takes more ground to grow more food to support even more humans. Pretty simple. Ask the native Americans why we put them on reservations...so we could control more ground and grow more stuff, their by reducing the competition. So that we could control our own food source....to support more humans.

Trying to westernize indigenous culture's that are living in perfect harmony with the land that is native to them. I am thinking of Africa in this instance and how we have transformed them from a primarily nomadic culture that traversed the plains. Following the rains and the game animals, to a bunch of people crammed into a couple square miles trying to live the western dream, because we have convinced them that that you are not very developed as a people if you cannot live in a pseudo urbanized setting depleting the immediate surroundings resources. Their by product of which results in depleted food sources, disease, famine, crime, and a host of other problems to great to try and cover.

Medicine and technology. This seems straight forward that their is a lot of us alive today, that wouldn't have survived a hundred years earlier. What with C-sections, drugs, x-rays, etc... me included. But given the chance to play God we by most accounts try to save every living thing that we can. I am just not sure if that was the way it was really intended. In the real world their are checks and balances that keep populations in check. Once that system has been compromised it creates a false sense of reality that we come to believe is real. Which is not real at all. It is an artificially propted up population that over time is destined to fail...because it runs counter to the reality of the natural world.