Re: Are we really Overpopulated?
The planet is definitely overpopulated... that's one of the reasons I never had kids. (Aside from lacking any maternal instinct.)
Too many of us.
Too many older people knocking around because medicine has extended the average lifespan, allowing people to live on with debilitating conditions , but quality of life for older people is probably poorer than it has ever been. I'm not talking material comfort and money here, I'm talking how the spirit slowly dies because the body is knackered.
Too many of us.
Never mind cities, look at any small semi-rural village .... all you see now is miles of new laid concrete and new housing estates. They're throwing them up around where I live. Who can afford them is another matter. .. and another social problem. A housing problem.
Too many of us.
That's why the race is on to come up with sustainable and renewable fuels now Man(and WoMan too
) have nearly exhausted the fossil fuels that took millennia to form.
Either it's running out or the planet-huggers have decreed its it bad for us and the planet and to stop using it, though it's running out anyway.
Something has to fuel all our cars, houses, factories and conveniences of modern life.
Too many of us.
That's also why recyclable rubbish has become big business ... I tried to find out on google what percentage of the planet is marred with landfill sites.
We knock up 1.3 billion tons of landfill waste annually .... 10 times more than a century ago.
Mankind is like a boil or a blister on the planet waiting to burst.
Too many of us.
Apparently birth rates are falling around the world ... remember the 'good old days' of families with 12 kids? When half of the little nippers died young through malnutrition or childhood ailments.
Isn't it currently running now at 1.7 ?
Since the days of newly liberated gays, and the whole LGBT movement ( I always feel heteroes are unfairly left out of that neat little acronym) ... it seems that bi-bisexualism is on the increase even if straightforward gays or lesbianism isn't ... and gender reassignment also seems to be more commonplace.
I, personally don't think same-sex couples make ideal parents.
There is more to raising children than the ability to nurture and love them and provide a financially stable home .. which I'm sure gays or lesbians are more than capable of doing.
What they
can't do is provide the role models of masculinity and femininity. Of Yin and Yang ..or opposites that complement to produce a balanced complete whole. The family unit.
Once this yen for making people genderless catches on and men and women as such are outdated terms there'll be no need for mum, dad, or even brother and sister.That does seem to be the way the world is going.
I pity kids thesedays with all this confusion over gender identity ( which started out with mere sexual identity but has now gone bananas) .. with the world running dry of it's resources, and space .. space blighted with landfill and houses, more houses ....
but .. on the otherhand ...
until it runs out they're having a whale of a time with mobile phones, multiple holidays abroad each year and enjoying all the perks and luxury that planet pollution has given them, which Greta whats-her-name Thunderthighs and her ilk blame on our generation.