Saturday, February 27, 2010
Is Mother Nature Finally Defending Her Planet?
Labels: Economy, Environment, Government, History, Human Nature, Life, Religion, Science, Society
Mistress Monologues, By Nina Nintius ~99
"As of 27 February 2010, the EARTH'S ENTIRE human population is estimated by the United States Census Bureau to be 6,805,200,000. Because births outnumber deaths, the world's population is expected to reach nine billion in 2040,[4][5] or by 2050.[2]"
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So in the next 30-40 years we are going increase our current burden on the planet by around 2.2 billion lives. It has to be a group effort to curb this folks - we really all need to be on the same page with this one. Then again, Mother Nature may already be taking steps...
According to the USGS the planet Earth has had 268 m4.5+ earthquakes in the last week, as of Saturday, February 27, 2010 at 07:16:50 PM (PST) - Pacific. Another site called Disaster Watch has a royal cache of disaster items all nicely organized complete with their source links.
Add to those today's 8.8 Earthquake in Chile, the 6.3 in Argentina and the world-wide Tsunami threat that followed Chile's quake, you really have to wonder.
Now I don't want you to think I am suddenly going all Biblical and trying to see the signs of the Apocalypse. You all know that is not my way. Natural Disasters are only disasters because we build things that are attached to the surface of the earth. We settle in one spot, dig in and make roots. For wild life and Nomadic tribes, the simply life affords them the ability to move away from danger, daily if needed.
However I just love the idea that the planet may at last be fighting back intentionally. Whether or not we caused global warming we cannot deny we have polluted and pillaged this earth all because someone once told our ancestors that God said it was their right and that all this bounty was God's gift to them. "Go forth and populate the Earth" God allegedly told Adam and Eve.
Ok let's go with that thought for a moment. Then didn't God also supposedly give them the ability to learn and the free will to act on their acquired knowledge? When we evolved as a species and learned that no well is bottomless we were probably supposed to use our free will to moderate our usage of the planets resources - and the care of her flesh and blood - so that our planet would last us as long as possible.
Also, once we learned how to extend our lives beyond disease, beyond component failure, we should have used our free will to curb our growth as a species. To discourage even the well-off couple from having multiple children while encouraging safe sex practices among all humans.
We would have to provide free, long-term birth control to to all fertile teens and adults to accomplish this end. Daily methods require the user to be responsible for effectiveness, a shot would be better.
Sometimes a good roll with the one you love is all some people have to look forward to each day that doesn't cost money or burn gas. Thus I would never begrudge any adult the pleasure of a consenting partner, but I would behoove them to be smart and not add to the problem.
I would also behoove parents, not voters to supervise the behavior of their teens, insuring no unwanted pregnancies occur by chaperoning and instruction.
I would never agree to any government controlled laws like those in China. That is far to extreme. Instead I would only want birth control to be free (tax payer funded), to reduce the need for abortions that no one wants to pay for, not to mention how controversial they are.
At best we could hope that couples would voluntarily have only 1 child. Or none, instead adopting some of the millions of orphans across the globe. We can discuss foreign adoption laws another time.
The way I see it though, like it or not, if we don't take control of the issue voluntarily, and Mother Earth/God doesn't shake off at least half of us, eventually 'they', the powers that be, will have no choice but to force controls on us just to keep us from starving to death.
Because the more homes you build the less land you have left to grow food on. And the more people you have eating the faster that food goes bye-bye. More people, more houses, less land, less food. Even my dust bunnies can understand that.
Now a lot of my readers will tell me that the Bible has predicted that all these things would happen, will continue to happen, and that a good deal of people are going to die before the big final battle between good and evil. That it is all apart of God's plan. And maybe it is.
Yet, if I were known to be enough of a believer in all things Biblical to sway their minds, I would suggest that perhaps it is not supposed to be taken as a prophecy but rather as a warning.
Pretty much every civilization has or had a dooms day prophecy. I think some of those cultures already experienced theirs. However it is also just logical to assume that eventual population growth would lead to a strain on resources causing wars, oppression and famine.
Impoverished areas tend to be unclean which leads to disease which leads to plagues being spread by mosquitoes. Any one with basic reasoning skills should have been able to put that together ages ago.
So ancient peoples wrote warnings about the end of days instead of warning their descendants not to pillage the Earth to prevent the end. And future generations assumed it was fated to happen as warned. At least we better hope it is just a warning because that means we can actually prevent it.
As I pointed out at the beginning, natural disasters are not necessarily signs that the Earth or God thinks we have too many people, it would be cool if they were (just for the sake of argument - not the loss of life part), but there are plenty of other bad things going on besides earthquakes and snow storms which are in fact caused by over population. At least at the core root.
My fear is that too many think they are signs, that the end is inevitable, and divinely foretold, so all they have to do is prepare for it rather than try to prevent it. Many hope or believe that a select few will be reincarnated when it is all over and given paradise to start anew.
So I guess the rest of us can just suck it then? Sorry, I know my Christians buddies do not actually have such an attitude. It does however illustrate a point about how we as humans may perceive a concept and the attitudes we attach to that concept based on how we feel it personally affects us.
Just do your Empress a favor and for just 1 moment pretend you never read what someone else wrote in a book about what they believe God expects of you, or has promised you in exchange for your faith, and use that brain that God gave you to exercise your free will and do the right thing for the future of humanity.
It is time we stopped "going forth and populating the Earth" indiscriminately and started treating Earth like the life giving body that it is. Maybe the old folks will be impressed by our evolved thinking and offer us a reprieve. That which has the power to create has the power to change it's mind.
Otherwise the old folks, God and Mother Nature, offended at our disdain for all they have given us, might just do what no one has predicted or expects... Kill everyone. No Rapture. The End. Assuming we don't do it to ourselves first.
"A goal without a plan is just a wish." ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944)
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