As we all are growing up often we are idealistic in the extreme from what we are told in School. For example, "You can grow up to be president!"
For me, I would ask myself as a child or young adult: "Why would I ever want to do that?"
This seemed like a good way to suffer unbelievable pain for 4 to 8 years. So, why would I do that?
But, some people are driven in that direction for whatever the reason. And the craziest person I have ever seen want to be president so far is Trump. And he wants to be president for ALL the wrong reasons. Because he is destroying our democracy by all his actions.
But, the point is practicality.
I found becoming practical and pragmatic extremely painful coming from an idealistic place where I preferred to be in my early 20s. However, without practicality you cannot get married, support your wife, have children and raise them successfully.
So, without practicality none of this is going to work at all.
You might get someone pregnant but without practicality several lives likely will be destroyed in the process including your own.
And unless both the husband and the wife are both practical that likely isn't going to work either in regard to raising children successfully to adulthood.
So, having children and raising them to adulthood successfully and practicality go hand in hand always.
Sunday, March 31, 2019
Why is 1 billion people a sustainable number?
IF you look at human beings on earth:
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It was another 123 years before it reached two billion in 1927, but it took only 33 years to reach three billion in 1960. Thereafter, the global population reached four billion in 1974, five billion in 1987, six billion in 1999 and, according to the United States Census Bureau, seven billion in March 2012.
World population milestones were unnoticed until the 20th century, since there were no reliable data on global population dynamics. It is estimated that the population of the world reached one billion for the first ... billions. Population, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 ... Demographers do not universally accept this date as being exact.
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So, if 1 billion people took the human race 200,000 years to reach in 1804 and it took another 123 years to 1927 to make 2 billion people and then 3 billion people were reached in 1960 and so on, why is 1 billion people a usefully sustainable level of people on earth?
I'd say that it's that when other species begin dying en masse like they are now on earth in the 6th Great extinction which started the last 500 years or so, you either reduce human population back to about 1 to 2 billion people or all species go extinct eventually.
However, there might be ways to engineer a different outcome too. But, that likely would mean all or mostly all other species would be dead including all cattle, all sheep, all deer and all wild animals that aren't inside of zoos.
So, 1 billion is sustainable for thousands of years, 2 billion people might be sustainable for about 200 to 500 years.
However, the present level of population is not sustainable at all and likely we will be reducing drastically populations by the end of this century or face extinction along with all other species here on earth within a few hundred years.
However, Global Warming and global Climate change likely will reduce populations in extreme ways of both humans and animals throughout the next few centuries too, and this way big wars like World War I and II might not be necessary to control world populations.
For example, nuclear weapons have been the biggest single thing stopping world war III because everyone knows that would end the planet itself pretty quickly into an asteroid belt like the one out past Mars.
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