The Over-Population Disease

     The number of diseases to be afraid of in this world is almost as large as the number of estimated people in the world itself. However, the one disease that is overlooked in our bid to live safer, longer, more healthy lives, is the disease that will eventually take care of itself.

     If you consider the sheer number of people in the world today, along with the strain we are already putting on our food supplies, we will breed beyond the capabilities to feed ourselves and will be witness to mass starvation. Breeding itself is not the only problem. Medicine is the other large contributor to what will eventually be our undoing.

     With medicine, almost anything is possible. Having problems getting pregnant, go see a fertility clinic. Are your arteries clogged with fat from overeating, a surgical procedure and lifestyle change will add another 10 + years to your life.

     We were meant to die naturally, not live by means of surgeries and medicines that extend us beyond what nature had intended. If we were not meant to have children, than we should not. If we were not meant to live to 70 years old, than we should not. I struggle with regret every day because I asked my wife to have her tubes untied so that I could have a child of my own. A decade later, and having learned a massive amount about where we are headed as a people, I fear for the well being of my children and the world we will leave them.

      This pending disaster can be lessened in intensity if we act quickly to limit our development and extension of life. This can entail limits on family sizes, permits to have children, and the limitation of medical assistance for those persons over a certain age.

     I know these actions are harsh, but our survival as a race depends on us slowing our growth to a degree that we create no more people than we lose in a day. The suffering of the world as a whole will be far greater than the suffering of us as individuals.