Population

It is an interesting aspect of the human race (or some of it) that it has the instincts of the species known as Lemming, i.e. the rush into oblivion, or is it that Lemmings also have a dream of Utopia?. 

Where the Lemmings have the rush to commit suicide when the population get to big, humans have the insane rush to increase the population to unsustainable levels and totally ignoring the consequences.

In the past the population has been controlled by nature, some of the mechanism's used were the "Four horsemen of APOCALYPSE" who are far from being agents of the Devil. Humans without a challenge are like fish without water, hence, Utopia would be Hell if we get there.

Why is it, with a population that has grown four times in 100years, with two world wars and hundreds of others, hundreds of natural "disasters" (I prefer "occurrence" because how can the things that shape our world be disasters?), that "civilization" is trying to end all wars, no one should die (before, during, after birth or even in old-age, and we need a fertility drug?), who wants to live forever anyway?. 

The statistics indicate that in early Oct 1999 the six billionth person will be born, and that the rate of increase is slowing down, absolutely brilliant, just supposing the rate of increase stays the same and that the average life is one hundred years, that poor sod born in Oct will (in 2099) be one of 24 billion, with twenty million people on the move now because of starvation, race, religion or poverty and an increasing percentage of the population as "old-age" (which can mean over 40), would you put a bet on there being no wars?. 

It would a safe bet the Horsemen are sharpening their spurs for the next ride.

P.S. Please note, for Kosovo, East Timor, etc read Kent in fifty years time when the indigenous population gets pissed off with the illegal immigrants coming through that bloody tunnel.

Utopia is the place where everything is right, nobody dies, no challenge, no stress, dead boring, or why is it most peoples favorite past-times are anything "illegal, immoral or fattening"?

See the BBC's overpopulation site

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