Proposal to Consider: Reduce Reproduction Rates

Ok, so by now everyone is totally offended and the child-hater and witch accusations will be in full force.  This proposal is just something I hope people may think about before deciding to bring any more people into the world.

No Vacancy:  The world is full.  This is not really a joke.  There are over 7 billion people in the world.  If we do not have plans for relocation, our humanity family will and has outgrown our shack.  Human overpopulation has devastated the planet and consumed its resources.

The world is suffering: war, poverty, lack of food, lack of fresh water, lack of energy, lack of space, lack of jobs, etc.  Have you ever gotten in a crowded buffet line, and by the time you got to the front, all of the salad dressing and croutons are gone, and nothing left but a big fat fly?  The human race has become that buffet line and they ran out of croutons two weeks ago.  Maybe consider instead of bringing your village to Pizza Hut, maybe next time, just bring your best friend.  He was the only one you were talking to anyway!

The argument is simple: quality over quantity.  That is the quality of humanity's population should be the goal, not to reproduce and reproduce and consume and consume as a nightmarish virus would.  Consume and consume until we have nothing less but each other to consume.

I AM NOT saying there should be couple child limits or that children are not wonderful, or anything of that sort! I am concerned and proposing this because I do care deeply for the children, humanity, and this little marble that has been our home.

I choose to remain childless so that I will not add to the exhaustion of Earth's resources.  If the world's people made the logical decision to significantly slow reproduction rates, it would give our world the vital relief it needs to recover from our overwhelming presence and our ancestors will not have to fight to the death over the ever continuing dwindling natural resources.  Climate change could also improve, with the less people, less emissions and pollution, could allow recovery time and minimize the devastating damage we have already done.  Less people means more to go around and a the probability of a higher quality of life for all people.

The world may do everything it can to rid itself of the infection, known as human beings.  Super bugs, disease, violent weather, and that comet from the Oort Cloud, a super-volcano, famines, soil erosion, etc, etc, etc.

If we do not make these changes ourselves, there may come an unfortunate day when the decision may be forced upon us.  I really hope this can be avoided.  The worst-case scenarios I do not even dare to type, but they are very dark scenarios and would be a tragic end to our beautiful little dream turned nightmare.

So that pretty much sums it up.  Too many people means less for all and even less for future generations, should they survive to see it.

Time analyzed as a dimension

When most of us think of space and time we are speaking as if the two were unrelated topics.  What is time?  Is time real?  Time is a dimension, one of the four we can perceive in our everyday existence.

One may argue that you can look out into space, but you can't see out into time or back, for that matter.  We recognize time's existence by measuring changes we perceive in out space.

However it is not so that you can not look out into time.  Actually, every time you open your eyes, you are looking out into space and back in time.  Say what?  It is completely true.  Everything we see is back in time.  Nothing we perceive is happening at our particular location in time.  Case in point, the stars, of course.  You look at the stars and you are looking back in time.  No matter where you look, it takes "time"  for you to see that object, due to the limits of light speed.

What would be truly interesting is if we could see through time into the future.  I am convinced that this is a possibility as well.  Why should we be able to move through space in different speeds and directions, but not through time.  Of course, we cannot know whether what we perceive as the passage of time is the same as other persons, animals, or plants, for instant.  But, anyway, why should we be so limited to be allowed to move only forward, and to see only back?  This simple question needs to addressed and we must learn to manipulate our time travel as we manipulate our space travel.  I am convinced that as our species has succeeded in comprehending the workings of the universe, that we are capable of time travel.  I also think that it is a requirement that we achieve this  feat to ensure the continued success of our existence.