The world’s population, according to the United Nation, had hit 7 billion since the late 2011, and this, in my opinion, should have been the most astonishing event that people ever experienced if they had looked into the risk hidden behind such devastating population of Homo sapiens. However, I was so disappointed to see the majority would rather care about the incidents of the protest, Occupy Wall Street, and the intimidation of Greek default than minding the ecological problems caused by humans themselves.

The reason I think the problem of global population is much more crucial than that of global economics is the latter concerns nothing more than a number, whereas the former deals with nothing less than human survival. Imagine, if you would please, what will be the result if Greece defaults? Nothing! No one is going to die of bankruptcy, if I should say, except some bankers who "did not" have elephant skins. On the other hand, do you know how many tons of resources are consumed, and how many tons of pollutants are produced annually by 7 billion people? Well, I don’t have the exact data at my hands, but, have you ever seen a bear ship a salmon in his/her vehicle, wash and scale it, discard its head and viscera, put seasonings on it, roast it with a big oven in a decorated kitchen, and place it at a fine china plate before he/she eats it? I haven't seen any bear do, and I am sure no one else ever has either, but I do see every human do.

Humans create hundreds, i.e. exponential, folds more of ecological problems than any other life does because they do tons of things that any other animal would never ever know how to do. For examples, they live in houses constructed with materials transported from faraway places, drive cars drinking the essence of Jurassic animals, take airplanes transmitting pathogens around the world, eat foods much more than their physical needs then go to the gyms to shed their flabs, discard even more than they eat then build huge furnaces to incinerate what they discard, produce chemicals whether toxic or not, build gorgeous dams whether destructive to ecosystems or not, condense nuclear powers whether disastrous to themselves or not, create wars whether for peace or not, and so on. All of these activities are the causes of ozone holing, global warming, nuclear and chemical pollutions, and many other natural catastrophes.

In addition, a person nowadays consumes natural resources and creates ecological problems with rates hundreds folds more than the one did one hundred years ago; not to mention the population nowadays is tens folds more than it was one hundred years ago. Moreover, by inferring from statistical data, the world population grows at an exponential rate as well. Consequently, the ecological hazard actually is growing at an exponentially exponential rate as a result of the rate of human population growth and that of problems created by humans. Someday, not very long in the future, humans will exhaust natural resources and God's patience.

Trust me! Humans are running against the clock of their doomsday.
                                                                February 26, 2012, Burnaby