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U.S. population to hit 300,000,000 in 2006. Projected time - October.
I was reading one of Tyler's books. It was a math book that made him utterly giddy because he's a math major, and a nerd, and that's part of the reason I love him. Anyway, it was explaining the fact that the human mind cannot conceptualize large numbers, not even to 100. So that when some people were asked to insert on a line where 1,000 and 1,000,000 would be, it looked like this:
1----100-------1000---------1000000
When in actuality, it's more like this:
1-------100-------------------------------------------1000--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1000000
And a billion, don't even go there.
I am always worried about population growth. I know that population will result in overcrowding, destroying natural resources, dimishing the quality of living, etc until the Earth can simply not house all of us.
I think something should be done, though I don't know what exactly. China's taking a pretty radical but thoughtful stand by making it illegal to have more than one child, and that child you have to apply to the government to have. Morally this is wrong. It takes freedom away from the individual and takes away something that makes us inherently human. But I've never been one for morals. I like to look at the bigger picture. So as absolutely crazy and morbid as I am about to sound, I am glad at the fact that the baby-boomers of the 1940s are going to die around the same time and that will take out a good hunk of the population. I am glad at certain diseases that are widespread. I know, I would be upset if I got, let's say, AIDS, or if someone I knew got it. But that is the individual's emotions getting in the way of seeing things outside the box. AIDS is one way that Mother Nature is desperately attempting to even out the population. And even then it's not happening fast enough.
I do not donate to charities, wear wristbands about diseases, support little starving children in third world countries. And it hurts, because it is my instinct to help. I WANT to help. But helping would hurt, in the bigger picture. I have cried while watching those commercials - send only 18 dollars a month and you can sponsor a child. I hate that I can't help, but I really do feel that I cannot help. Let's hope Bush doesn't abolish abortion, eh?
You certainly don't have to agree with me. This is a radical entry, and not very humane. But it's my opinion.
I was reading one of Tyler's books. It was a math book that made him utterly giddy because he's a math major, and a nerd, and that's part of the reason I love him. Anyway, it was explaining the fact that the human mind cannot conceptualize large numbers, not even to 100. So that when some people were asked to insert on a line where 1,000 and 1,000,000 would be, it looked like this:
1----100-------1000---------1000000
When in actuality, it's more like this:
1-------100-------------------------------------------1000--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1000000
And a billion, don't even go there.
I am always worried about population growth. I know that population will result in overcrowding, destroying natural resources, dimishing the quality of living, etc until the Earth can simply not house all of us.
I think something should be done, though I don't know what exactly. China's taking a pretty radical but thoughtful stand by making it illegal to have more than one child, and that child you have to apply to the government to have. Morally this is wrong. It takes freedom away from the individual and takes away something that makes us inherently human. But I've never been one for morals. I like to look at the bigger picture. So as absolutely crazy and morbid as I am about to sound, I am glad at the fact that the baby-boomers of the 1940s are going to die around the same time and that will take out a good hunk of the population. I am glad at certain diseases that are widespread. I know, I would be upset if I got, let's say, AIDS, or if someone I knew got it. But that is the individual's emotions getting in the way of seeing things outside the box. AIDS is one way that Mother Nature is desperately attempting to even out the population. And even then it's not happening fast enough.
I do not donate to charities, wear wristbands about diseases, support little starving children in third world countries. And it hurts, because it is my instinct to help. I WANT to help. But helping would hurt, in the bigger picture. I have cried while watching those commercials - send only 18 dollars a month and you can sponsor a child. I hate that I can't help, but I really do feel that I cannot help. Let's hope Bush doesn't abolish abortion, eh?
You certainly don't have to agree with me. This is a radical entry, and not very humane. But it's my opinion.