It isn't the only thing that will keep humans alive on earth. But, it is one of the things that might keep humans alive on earth. So, in my blog I try to emphasize content over almost anything else. By knowing what is important to know about to survive is important to all of us. I take a macro approach which is: "If enough people know about the important things happening on earth possibly we can avoid really serious wars like we had in World War I and II. Skirmishes are likely going to go on for 100 or more years depending upon what kind of government or governments exist on earth or even no governments at all in some situations like exists in Somalia or other areas of earth or did exist for about 20 years. Or places like Syria where the Assad government exists against the will of the majority of people there by using technology to genocide the masses.
So, what will keep the human race from going extinct?
Some of the things that are moving towards extincting the human race today are:
1. overpopulation
2. Global Climate change
3.The Internet
4. GMOs
5. War
6. Technological Change
7. Future Shock
8. fishing out the oceans completely
9. pollution of air, land and sea
10. mass suicide caused by all the above.
Let's look at these problems (these are just a few of them there are actually many more):
1. Overpopulation
There are more people alive right now here on earth than have ever lived since the beginning of humans on earth combined.
The above is a true statement. So, what we are experiencing now can only be seen as an aberrant anomoly in regard to the population of humans on earth.
2. Global Climate Changes
Even without Global Climate change there would be severe problems soon in regard to so many people and dwindling farmland every day on earth. We are losing an incredible amount of farmland every single day to:
Rising ocean levels
salinization as salt water destroys soils for raising food in
pollution of soils by pesticides and herbicides over the years as they build up in the soil and the foods we eat over the years.
So, even people that want to grow organic food often cannot find soils that aren't already polluted from years and years of pesticides and herbicides. Soon, there will have been 100 years of pesticides and herbicides in soils all over earth.
Global Climate change means that no country can predict whether it can grow enough food for it's people that year anymore ever again. It also means that food prices will spike in that nation or surrounding nations whenever a crop is lost in any or all countries. Up until now, enough countries could grow enough food to feed richer nations (the upper 50% of humanity) while every year more and more people starve ( a minimum of 10 million or more people starve every year) and an even higher amount die from water born diseases worldwide every year.
However, in some ways Global Climate change is doing us all a favor by thinning out mankind so more nations don't have wars to fight over food and resources so much. I expect human population will peak around 9 billion by 2050 and then begin to decline very rapidly then from Global Climate change, food wars and other wars after that as the resources (fish from the oceans, animals from the land, potable water dries up or is mismanaged etc.)
So, global Climate changes will likely take out about 7 billion people approximately by the turn of the century and there likely will be 2.5 to 3.5 billion left because we will be at 9 billion likely by 2050.
3. The Internet
The Internet is very tricky to talk about because on the one hand a child in Africa has access to more useful information with an Iphone than President Clinton had while President of the United States.
Just think about the implications of that for a moment.
However, here is the other side of it. Especially with young people and anyone else unwise enough to actually use facebook, literally anything you put there never will be erased even if you erase it or they say they erase it. So, literally anything you put online can haunt you or your children for centuries and cause them harm in various ways.
Just look at the changes to governments the last century here on earth. Would you want Hitler or STalin to have those records of everyone on Earth? What do you think they would do with all that (innnocent information from children). How many people could they track down and exterminate one by one or round up and send to the gas chambers like Hitler did just based upon the information from Facebook.
Then there is the business aspect to all this. If you look at the most advanced fighter jet the U.S. has developed and is developing China has already stolen much or all of the technology for it and has already incorporated it into a clone of our most advanced jet fighter already.
Add to this information being stolen from all free world companies in regard to their innovations by China and others and then manufacturing those innovations there and undercutting the prices of what the U.S. (because of higher labor costs) has to charge for those stolen invention ideas.
4. GMOs (Genetically modified organisms
The extinction through Genetically modified organisms is very direct and to the point. Basically, if anyone worldwide eats enough of them they cannot reproduce after the third generation. So, those genetic lines go extinct.
So, even if you don't die of an allergic reaction to GMOs and get Eosinophil where they disconnect your intestines as a last ditch effort to save your life. Or as in the case of my next door neighbor's daughter the mother is an oncology nurse and saved her teenage daughter's life by feeding her only brown rice (non-GMO rice) for three years (the only thing she could eat and keep down). However, now about 7 years later her daughter is attending a large university in California and is okay.
More later.
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