On Earth Day 1970, we number 3.5 billion humans. In that span of 52 years, we didn't balance human population. While first-world countries enjoyed 2.0 children per woman or less, third-world countries screamed ahead by adding 4.4 BILLION more humans. We're currently at 7.9 billion and headed for 10 billion.
The numbers prove SO insane that it's hard to grasp mentally or emotionally. What the hell and how in the hell will the United States sustain another 100 million more people within 28 years? You got any answers?
After 1965, when the plastics started pouring into the oceans (our final toilet) along with the 84,000 chemicals, notice that our cancer rates exploded. Notice that humans dumped 5.25 TRILLION pieces of plastics into the oceans in the last 57 years! We add 8,000,000 more pieces of plastic 24/7. That Great Pacific Garbage Patch with 100 million tons of plastic floating out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean should make you sick enough to stop it. Nope! We humans keep adding to it and the extinction rates of marine life. My God, we must be the most arrogant, clever and dumbest species on the planet.
Then, notice that we kill off 100,000,000 sharks annually for shark fin soup. Those death rates have been going on for over 30 years. We're now causing the extinction of 100 animals 24/7 across the globe. We're burning the rain forests to the ground. I could give you another dozen nasty, God-awful nightmare we're committing future generations to try and survive.
That's the good, bad and ugly of Earth Day 2022. I cringe having to tell you that here in America, we're in deep trouble more than anyone understands. We simply cannot continue to add population and sustain ourselves at the same time.
"Unlimited population growth cannot be sustained; you cannot sustain growth in the rates of consumption of resources. No species can overrun the carrying capacity of a finite land mass. This Law cannot be repealed and is not negotiable." Dr. Albert Bartlett, www.albartlett.org, University of Colorado, USA.
May God have mercy on the human race when the "you know what" hits the fan.
We have failed Senator Gaylord Nelson's vision. U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson, Father of Earth Day 1970, said,
The battle to restore a proper relationship between man and his environment, between man and other living creatures, will require a long, sustained, political, rural, ethical and financial commitment far beyond any effort we ever made before in any enterprise in the history of man.
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