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  Earth Day Preachin'

  No one, and I do mean NO ONE, seems willing to deal with the elephant in the living room: there are simply too many human beings on this planet to be sustainable. Unless the human race cooperates to stop overall population growth and then to actually decrease the total human load on the planet's resources there can be no real progress in stopping global warming and its terrible consequences.

  Without some kind of massive cooperative population-limiting effort, the non-cooperative forces of nature will do the job: war, famine, and pestilence (disease) will kill ever more people, and the lives of those not killed will be miserable.

  I fear that the necessary cooperation will not happen because humans (like most species) are genetically programmed to produce as many children as possible. We are also genetically programmed to fight wars and to hoard food and other resources for our family, clan, and tribe, but not to cooperate on a large scale.

  So far religious leaders are not willing to abandon the notion that people should "be fruitful and multiply" or that people are supposed to "master" living things and "preserve" (by the way, the Hebrew word in Genesis here means "preserve, as in crush fruit to make preserves") the world's resources by using them up as rapidly as possible.

  I don't feel very hopeful that people will actually face the problem of too many of us until it is too late to stop the destruction of the world as we have known it. It's hard to conceive of the Earth without people, but that may be what will happen. The cockroaches will probably survive, and perhaps new life forms will evolve as they did after past cataclysmic events in the Earth's history. We humans may well go the way of the dinosaur.On By caring for God's creatures, we avert a second flood posted 1 year, 6 months ago 20 Responses