People

I've noticed a rather disturbing infestation around my home. There are people everywhere. So many of them driving around like maniacs, in a big hurry to go nowhere. And they are always around, looming the halls of my workplace, chatting it up on the phone, yelling at each other in the streets at 1:00a.m.

Why are there so many? And why hasn't some superbug come along and wiped out what seems to be a vast overpopulation of humans? There are too many of us. Even if we rapidly cut our industrial emissions of carbon, just the sheer number of us breathing should continue warming the planet significantly. And there's the end of oil coming at some point, it can't go on forever. What will we do without an intermediate form of energy?

Basically, the game is over. The jig is up. At some point in the next 50-100 years civilization as we know it will crumble. And by civilization, I mean industrialized civilization. There's just not enough resources to go around. And, we've seen, exclusive groups hog all the resources anyway. And we've all seen what happens when resources run out and people get desperate. Are you ready for WWIII? Those of us in first or second world countries are going to have to learn to get by with a lot less.

Or maybe we won't have to sacrifice at all. Our kids may have to, the suckers! They should have been born earlier.

I hope it holds out until I'm gone. . . . but I think it's wishful thinking.