You do know why this is though, don't you. The answer's pretty obvious. The old are getting older and there are more babies being born that are living. Don't get me wrong. This is all very miraculous at all, and I do quite like to stop for a little while to wonder at the feat of modern science. But sometimes don't you think that there is a reason that people are meant to die, to have a life expectancy? Years ago babies probably had less than a one in ten chance of surviving childbirth, yet these days, to have a still-born or something go horribly wrong such as cot-death is becoming increasingly rare. Whatever happened to survival of the fittest?
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| Mr Bright Spark |
Modern Science, that's what it is. The people with brains are now helping out the people without brawn. Yes, babies can't fend for themselves. But back in the day, it was "fend for yourself or get out", and many of them did! Probably didn't think that earth and the human race was right for them (and you do get some people these days who feel the same way, maybe they would've been happier going to someplace else instead of here?). Yet now, these beings that haven't had a chance to get to grips with our complex communication system, are stuck on this one-way track to "Earth-dom" and can get lost in the mundane existence of participating in the human race, possibly against their will. True, true, it can be very tough on the mother. However, these days mothers sound like they're softening up, with all these different things that can help deal with the psychological trauma of a still birth at $100 an hour. You didn't get that even 100 years ago, did you? So why should we now? Obviously never having experienced this myself, I realise that this is quite a sensitive topic to touch upon. Regardless of all these incubators and baby close monitoring units, can't people see when it's not meant to be?
The Earth doesn't really need more people anyway. Since our lovely population boom since the Industrial Revolution, nature just hasn't been its usual self since. We're chopping away acres and miles and football pitches worth of lush forest, essential to the earth's balance (I sound a bit hippy-dippy mumbo jumbo here but it's pretty true) to housing estates, cattle ranches and all sorts of other things that are a bit crap compared to trees. You know what? We also need trees for oxygen. If you cut them down and dump some cattle on them, we're not going to be getting as much oxygen from them as we used to, right? Trees also love CO2, they need it for photosynthesis, but if you take all the trees away, who's going to eat up all this carbon dioxide? It is quite harmful you know. Cows will also be producing more methane as well, and that's especially no good for our atmosphere.... So why do we think this is sustainable?! Soon enough there will be no more trees to cut down, nowhere to plant more cows and cook them for McDonalds and nowhere else to build houses. Not to mention no more coal to burn for fuel, no more oil to do fun things with... we're running out guys, we're running out! We don't need more people to come in and add to the problem!
If you have a baby, it will take you a couple of lifetime's worth of recycling to make up for that kid's carbon footprint throughout its lifetime. Kids are messy. Fact.
And now we stop worrying about the end of the world and turn to old people. Really, they're just decomposing people anyway, past their prime. Nature wouldn't want them to live that long, that's why they start to fall apart once they get past 45. It's a special way of saying "It's time to go now".
All in all, I just don't really think that I could cope with 7 billion people on this earth knowing that the majority of them are people that I wouldn't like because they're arseholes. And also I don't like people. Meh.
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