This blog is a collection of historical facts that prove that the Earth is over populated by humans.
In the mid West of the USA there are many "mounds" that were built many years ago by Native Americans. They teach us some very important lessons about over population. The original Native Americans came here from Asia about 35,000 years ago. Originally they lived as nomadic tribes who survived as "hunter gatherers". They lived off the land just like the animals and like animals their population grew to the point that they could no long live off the land like animals. Things had to change if they wanted their population to grow. That change meant switching to farming.
The "mound builders" were farmers, but different from Europe and Asia the Native Americans did not have domestic animals. That meant that they had to use human muscle power for their farming. They were blessed by some plants unique to the Americas that provide exceptional amounts of food for the Native Americans. Some of these plants were potatoes and corn. The "mound builders" eventually exceeded their food supply and the urban type mound society failed and the Native American left the Mound concept and went back to hunter gathering. When Columbus came to the New World in 1492 there were both farm societies and hunter gatherer societies.
At this time Europe was still in the farming society stage with their domestic animals, but had clearly reach the limit of that system even though they had both domestic animals and slaves. They had all the elements for their next stage, but lacked the plants for the farmers to plant to supply the needed food. In 1492 the human population of Europe was on the verge of starvation. Most of the people were less than 5 feet tall and females could not get pregnant. Places like Ireland had a stable population due to the lack of food. Europe had reached their population limit.
When Columbus returned to Europe with the potato and corn, Europe finally had the food needed to allow the society to move the next stage. Now Europe had food and excess workers from the farms who could work in factories. At the same time they figured out how to take energy from the burning of coal with the steam engine thus supplementing the work done by domestic animals. The industrial revolution was thus on the march. The cost of burning all the coal had its effect on the environment and thus the quality of life could not go to the next stage.
About 150 years ago oil and natural gas was discovered in the USA and around the world. This provided a totally new source of energy. At this same period electricity was able to be produced and transmitted around the country. Rivers were dammed to make electricity until most practical sources were exhausted, It took a few more years for the rest of the world to dam up their rivers, but the end is clearly in site. The auto and airplane engine were developed to convert the oil to works in factories and for farmer's tractors. You only have to look at the current cost of gasoline to see that we are near the end of the cycle driven by Oil and Natural Gas. What is next?
Notice that all these progression have had one purpose and that is to allow our Earth to support more and more people. There have been periods within many of these cycles of progress where the quality of life for us humans improved. My concern is that we are now at the point where the quality of life has to go down if we allow the population of the world to continue growing. If you examine the world, you will find many countries where they have gone over the edge where there is no return in terms of quality of life due to over population. It is also clear that allowing the shifting of population out of these failed states will only accelerate the decline of the host countries. This is thus clearly not a solution.
I have pointed out many of the major events that have allowed the quality of life to progress as well as the cause for their failures. The Earth is now in the first stage of another failure and I do not see any path out. If we accept a major decline in our quality of life it maybe possible to continue world population growth, but do you want that decline for yourself and your children when the solution is so clearly available? With an inflation of 8.5% there is not much time to debate the issue. Once we go over the edge of the cliff, it is just a mater of time before we come to a crashing stop at the bottom!
