Ok Fellow Human Breeders, Enough is Enough :D

OK, so we have close to 7 billion human beings on the planet now, and we're stretching the limits. As we increase, we're pushing other species' into extinction. If we keep it up, one day animals will be a memory, and we'll all be eating Soylent Green and living in shoe boxes.

Who else thinks that will completely suck ass? Well folks, there is hope. I was reading an article the other day about genetically modified foods, in this case specifically, genetically modified soy, and this is what I learned: In a study done in Russia on hamsters, by the time the third generation of the furry little buggers rolled out, most of them were sterile from eating the genetically modified soy. This gives me hope that the same will happen by the time we get to the third generation of humans eating genetically modified foods. If something like this does in fact come to pass, problem solved! Mother Nature can take a sigh of relief that the ingenuity of human beings will also lead to our destruction, or at the very least give us a good culling :D Of the many ways that mankind could destroy itself, this seems to be one of the kinder, gentler possibilities. Funny how things have a way of working out in the long run :D

But maybe that won't happen. Maybe it only happens to hamsters. So what can we do to prevent the world from overpopulating with humans when most people don't even see that there is a problem, much less want to do anything about it? Build taller buildings while issues like privacy and human dignity slowly rot away until privacy becomes one of those outmoded, old-fashioned notions from back in the days when there were things like grass and trees that grew wild and not just in tiny little parks you only get to visit on special occasions inside the tightly-packed skyscraper you and the hundred-thousand other people that live there call home? Do we want the government handing out fertility certificates to the privileged few who can afford them while the poor become forcibly sterilized and unlawful breeding is considered a crime against humanity?

It seems that the more ways we find to better ourselves in the short term, with better health, longer lives, and with the lack of natural predators, the more the future looks bleak for the environment, other animals, and any hope of personal freedoms for future generations. The notion that something has got to give is an honest one, and the possiblities that can come from such a dystopian future are many, and ugly.

So we can all either find a solution before it is too late, like expansion into space or some kind of population control scheme we can all agree on, or we can hope for the future of the hamster babies and their genetically modified soy.