Reply #5: Really? There are others. But not many. [View All]

[Gregorian]

In fact, I was shocked while out on my daily bike ride when I ran into one of the local doctors who also mountain bikes. We were blabbing away and I mentioned the logging that was planned to take place near our ride. And he started talking about the thing that is unmentionable. Population being the driving factor behind the consumption. And I was shocked. Once in a very great while I meet someone. I am assuming his understanding is due to the biological growth pattern he picked up in premed classes. But most people don't make the leap to humans. Their brains stay in the petri dish.

I'm far from optimistic. In fact I would say that I am hopeless. Well, for my lifetime at least. But I would, or I should say I need, to talk about this. I'm at my wits end. After many years of essentially running from one property to the next, I now own a timber ranch. And I am finding that what was a rural area when I started my journey, is no longer. It is liberal. There are Priuses roaming all over. I'm disgusted that what was such a nice place is, at least to me, undesirable. So you see, this, for me, is personal. I can no longer run. I may have one more move in me. IF there is even a place to go that has what I wanted so much. I started out in Palo Alto. It was a gorgeous little town. That ended. And the journey began.

Just the other day I was telling someone about 1492. Those white guys showed up. This was a continent in it's purest beauty. Some natural human beings lived here. Then a few hundred years later some settlers showed up. And within the time that they began to live, and now, it went from pure beauty to having nowhere to hide from the automobile and developments. I live in a near continuous state of disgust. And rightly so. But it's taking it's toll on me. I watched Shindler's List tonight, and realized how much I've lost. How far from my original soul I have ventured. And I'm not alone. Even if people don't realize it, as the population has increased, the value of a human has decreased. It becomes harder for us to tolerate each other. I sensed that like never before, this Christmas. A cold distance as shopping carts passed each other in the market.

This all happened around 1970, for me. I witnessed the killing of my little home town. I was a kid. And I would give anything to unlearn what I have discovered. I now loathe "breeders". I won't deny it. And it only hurts me.

But like I was saying, I am less than optimistic. And I say that because the part of the curve we are on is vertical. It's that part of the curve that is very difficult to break out of. It requires a complete concerted effort on behalf of everyone. Sure, in 100 years the planet could be devoid of human life if we all stopped having children. Short of that, if we even have one child, we halve the population in around a half century. That's still close to the 1975 world population. Not good. And that's if everyone had one child. That isn't happening. The Palins and Santorums and Sneddons have something like twenty kids between them. Remember Sneddon was the goon attorney who tried to prosecute Michael Jackson. Whatever. They are exceptions. As a rule, people's eyes are a feedback mechanism. Out of everyone I know I would say there are a half dozen children. Pretty slim. But we're on the super liberal side of the scale.

And I'm only looking at American society. In Asia, that's where the action is. Indians cheered that stupid six billion day. I spent it cringing and simmering with anger.

So for me, what is happening now is just a matter of self preservation. I just want to find a place to live, and be happy. It's totally selfish. I give up on the human race. If they're going to change, it's going to be so slow it won't matter. And I partly say that because global warming is a direct relationship to this problem. And it's an emergency. And population is not only not an emergency, it's not something people discuss. So until we can talk freely about your sex life, we aren't even going to get to discuss population. In fact, it's well known that in order to continue the growth, governments fear population growth slowdown. It IS happening. In France I think they're trying to conjure up ways to get people to have more kids.

So I saw Shindler's List. In my heart I know that we are here to love each other. And yet I talk as though we're amoebas. I talk like this because I don't want us to be amoebas. More people means more wars. It doesn't have to, but it does. That is the reality. I wish people would be more vigilant. And responsible.

It's late. I could bore you to death at ad infinitem. But I'll spare you. :)