The world is over populated. By the time you finish reading this, the population will have added another two hundred plus people to its existence. As you’re reading these words, about ten babies are being born with every twenty or so words. Our approach to over seven billion people on Earth is literally a few days away, and there is no slowing down after that. Sitting at your computer, people are being born and dying as you’re scanning through each word that I have written here. However, the rate at which we are creating human life is a lot greater than the rate that human life is dying off. Our average life expectancy is about 77.5 years. This number has increased about 30 years since the turn of the 20th century, when it was 49.2 years (see second link). For this reason, since the population is growing at a quicker rate than exhausting, over-population is occurring. It might sound great that we as the human race have expanded our boundaries and extended life so much further. And it is great. However, the beauty and wonder of how we have grown as a human society only goes so far. The more people we acquire on earth, the more people we need to provide for, and thus the more resources are being used. The Earth, however, is running out of the ability to provide these resources. Like the last sip of your favorite juice box, we are sucking the life, literally, out of Mother Earth. In the future, nearer than scientists would have expected, the resources that we depend on for everyday life and that sustain our living habits, will have diminished and become absent; human life will then begin to do the same.
With all this warning you would think that people would be more concerned about the future of humankind and our high-risk over population? And yet, in the last minute or two that it took you to read though this message, another two hundred to three hundred children have been born world-wide and there is no sign of us as intelligent human beings of slowing down.
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