The Weekend is Here
This was a long week for me. I was still recovering from a cold I had. And the whole new years thing was cool but it sucked to go back to work friday.
I really don't miss management. I look at my Teller Manager and I just chuckle cause of all the bullshit he goes through, it's the same at everyjob. And even though you're paid more for your position, I think it hardly justifies the amount of work you put in to it. Whatever, I don't do that anymore, so I have reverted back to bitching about the manager at work.
Here is part III of my on going essay that I wrote out of sheer boredom while at work! I almost started a new one at work today about the Cuban Revolution...maybe later though.
So, without Survival of the Fittest being in effect, Humans are free to multiply exponentially. Thus we overpopulate the earth and devour its natural resources to a point where species go extinct, the world warms, people go hungry, hurricanes become stronger, etc…
All these huge problems can be seen to stem from overpopulation. In nature there are checks and balances for population control (it seems). Predator and Prey is one easy example. Too many deer in the forest, then there is more food for the wolves. If the wolf population gets too great, there are less deer and many wolves go hungry. Malnutrition and disease might come into effect. Many wolves die. The Deer population regains strength. Unfortunately due to the intervention of humans by either killing a certain species or introducing one into a different ecosystem, sometimes the balance is destroyed, and as a result other species become critically endangered or extinct.
If the Human population grows, more food will just be grown (given adequate space for agriculture) and produced. So here we get an explosion of population, about 6 or 7 billion strong as of the new millennia.
Daniel Quinn, author of a popular book entitled Ishmael, argues simply that more food equals more humans. In writing about this topic I should mention (and Quinn mentions him too when discussing his work) 19th century English economist Thomas Malthus, whom had plenty of ideas about overpopulation. Quinn’s ideas in his fictional novels are attributed to being a version of Malthusian principles, though with some significant differences (Malthus argued about food shortage due to overpopulation, Quinn talks more of excess food not going to feeding those who are starving because of over population). That’s all I will say about them at this point, but they are worth a quick glance through on Wikipedia to learn about them, and what influenced me to write this essay in the first place.
More commentary later, perhaps on the Cubans as well!
I really don't miss management. I look at my Teller Manager and I just chuckle cause of all the bullshit he goes through, it's the same at everyjob. And even though you're paid more for your position, I think it hardly justifies the amount of work you put in to it. Whatever, I don't do that anymore, so I have reverted back to bitching about the manager at work.
Here is part III of my on going essay that I wrote out of sheer boredom while at work! I almost started a new one at work today about the Cuban Revolution...maybe later though.
So, without Survival of the Fittest being in effect, Humans are free to multiply exponentially. Thus we overpopulate the earth and devour its natural resources to a point where species go extinct, the world warms, people go hungry, hurricanes become stronger, etc…
All these huge problems can be seen to stem from overpopulation. In nature there are checks and balances for population control (it seems). Predator and Prey is one easy example. Too many deer in the forest, then there is more food for the wolves. If the wolf population gets too great, there are less deer and many wolves go hungry. Malnutrition and disease might come into effect. Many wolves die. The Deer population regains strength. Unfortunately due to the intervention of humans by either killing a certain species or introducing one into a different ecosystem, sometimes the balance is destroyed, and as a result other species become critically endangered or extinct.
If the Human population grows, more food will just be grown (given adequate space for agriculture) and produced. So here we get an explosion of population, about 6 or 7 billion strong as of the new millennia.
Daniel Quinn, author of a popular book entitled Ishmael, argues simply that more food equals more humans. In writing about this topic I should mention (and Quinn mentions him too when discussing his work) 19th century English economist Thomas Malthus, whom had plenty of ideas about overpopulation. Quinn’s ideas in his fictional novels are attributed to being a version of Malthusian principles, though with some significant differences (Malthus argued about food shortage due to overpopulation, Quinn talks more of excess food not going to feeding those who are starving because of over population). That’s all I will say about them at this point, but they are worth a quick glance through on Wikipedia to learn about them, and what influenced me to write this essay in the first place.
More commentary later, perhaps on the Cubans as well!