An Overcrowded Planet
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want to say this without any baseless assumptions made about my intent/ion (in saying so). Planet Earth is overpopulated. There, I’ve said it. I know few people (in person) who disagree, but many are shy to say so because there’s some guilt associated with the position, as if one advocates eliminating (or killing) billions of people.
Last weekend I spoke to my father about how police deals with death threats. Overcrowded nations, he explained, cannot keep up with most death threats. In the past, he said, when the global population was a lot smaller (when he was a kid in 1960 the number of people was a lot smaller; see population size graphs, in the 1960s there were 3 billion known humans, now we approach 10 billion!) the cops could more or less deal with all cases in a timely fashion. Now the police is understaffed, underfunded, and ill-equipped.
It bodes not positively (to say the least) for our future. Controlling “the masses” is getting harder and harder. Law enforcement isn’t keeping up.
