About two years ago I watched the global population clock cross the seven billion mark. It was horrifying. People were dying, sure, but so many more people were being born. Hundreds every second. In the time it took me to finish my cup of coffee, the global population had risen by a couple hundred people…..maybe even a thousand people. Then when it crossed from the six billions into the seven billions, I felt distinctly faint.
Where the heck are these seven billion people going to live?
I can’t even imagine. Each one of these people are going to go through the same channels I did, except it’s going to be that much tougher, because there is more competition for a limited amount of spaces. More people will be rejected from schools they would’ve gotten into, had they only been born thirty years earlier. Fewer will be educated at all. Some will starve, because food will eventually fall short of feeding the rapidly growing population. More will be below the poverty line. Don’t even get me started on applying for a job–we’re already seeing this. It’s almost impossible to get a job in today’s struggling job market. Politicians will prey on them, and eventually, there will be more war, destruction, and devastation for planet Earth. You can be sure of one thing in all of this: these seven billion people will procreate–at least once–to ensure their replacement on planet Earth.
What a terrifying thought. When you watch this population clock, it really gives you a sense of impending doom. It’s only a matter of time before we grow to the point of extinction.
Do you know that it took until the early 1800’s to break into the one billion population mark. From the beginning of time to the 1800’s. Isn’t that crazy? And what’s crazier still……the globe hit the two billion population mark only 130 years later. It’s been an all-speed ahead road to where we are today, since then. Post-Industrialized Earth, simultaneously dismissed the need for a larger labor force, and gave people time off to breed. Where were these seven billion people when man was building the pyramids, block by block? That’s when we could’ve used them. Not now, when technology has rendered the majority of us redundant. Here we stand, seven billion strong, and frankly, we are looking at a bleak future of increased poverty, violence and cabin fever. Something’s gotta give and I don’t know what. And while I sit here, typing this blog, another thousand are born, and marginally less have died.
Someone ought to show this clock to Kris Jenner. She and that woman on 19 Kids and Counting share a lot of blame in this.
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