I really appreciate all of the clear thought and obvious concerns due to the current momentum of human endeavors.
The outlook for human impact on the planet is horrendous (we've eliminated more than 50% of sea life in 50 years...HUH?!).
My new 'favorite' stats:
Humans will utilize 90% of the Earth's Freshwater by 2025, leaving 10% for wild flora/fauna!
We outweigh all the prey animals on the planet (besides domesticated ones), not exactly ecologically sound for the top predator...
We're rapidly sawing off the limb on the tree of life that supports us.
Didn't see much about human population except for war scenarios, but our numbers themselves are a problem.
Reasonable projections show our population continuing to grow, there will be more humans on the planet for the next 100 years than there are currently on the planet...going to be really tough to attempt to move our masses into a sustainable posture.
(If we solved the energy creation problem, to the extent that it would be now free to have electricity, as much as you want, what's going to keep us from destroying the ecological niches in which we reside, simply due to our numbers, and our stomachs? We don't know enough about the ecology of the planet to run it, we only know how to ruin it!)
I'm a volunteer in the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement and speak for myself only, as each volunteer has their own reasons for doing so. I decided in 1964, having heard there were starving children, that I wouldn't have any as long as some were starving, since there were obviously too many children! Children are still starving, and I'm now 60 years old...and childfree.
For the sake of life on the planet, it is now officially immoral to have children, for anyone, anywhere, anymore.
Thanks for your great work, may you live long and die off.
(Have you noticed more articles in the mainstream press about the benefits of eating insects? That's a little scary to me too!)
