It came to me in a dream last night – (I had a big piece of loaded pizza, just before I turned in.) It’s so simple I don’t know why someone hasn’t realized it before this. The key has been well known forever. It is contained in the meaning of the words, ‘Balance of Nature’.
Balance of Nature means that when you have too many of one species, you have to beef up the species that lives off them, or both species will eventually die out of existence. You get too many deer in Michigan; you have to import wolves and men with guns to kill off the surplus. If you have too many creatures in the oceans, Japanese fishermen will come with miles-long nets and remove everything in the way. Maybe that will get rid of some of the floating plasticware rafting for miles in the horse latitudes.
This method also will acquiesce to the will of the Right-to-Lifers. They can save every fetus and sperm just as long as they hurry the demise of the sick and elderly that probably are due to die even if they don't want to. We old folks have probably worn out our welcome and used up our share of the good things in life anyway. It’s time to go to meet our fate, and make room for the next batch of babies due nine months from the time the next big ship comes in. (I was a Navy wife so I know about that.)
You have to realize that this ground beneath our feet is really just a comparatively thin skin on the molten core of this planet. Science has discovered from reading the rocks that every so often, that skin suddenly slips, replacing the spot where the Poles (as in North and South, not European) used to reside, and there were sunnier places where mammoths used to eat daisies. That would explain why frozen mammoths in Siberia were found with daisies in their mouths. It had to be from a shifting of the top layer on the planet. It is so simple - it's a matter of keeping a balance of weight just right around the globe. In the past once in a while there just got to be too many elephants, giraffes, and gnus in Africa to keep Nature’s balance with the mammoth population nearer the top of the globe. Or maybe it was the mighty herds of bison on the American plains. Anyway, there wasn’t anyone keeping the score to help keep a Balance of Nature in order around the planet. The lions and hyenas couldn’t keep down the vast herd of migrating ungulates in Africa. And the wolves couldn’t keep the huge herds of American buffalo in balance before human hunters arroved to help them.
Since humans came along and got so smart in inventing ways to use the treasures of the earth to make life easier for themselves, there has been no predator except viruses that could keep down the human birth rate in the Balance of Nature scheme of things. And now that we have glorious sex coming at us from ads appearing everywhere; from magzines, from TV and movies, and those tempting porno shops, not to mention the new enhancements, and new medicines like Viagra to spur things on, the human Balance of Nature is really in trouble. We have new populations popping up everywhere, especially in countries that can't afford them or provide them with decent livings or jobs when the babies grow up.
Luckily there are always wars that can help Nature keep a balance. Germs are always helpful too. And all the while that the planet is warming and rainfall confines itself to places that already have too much, the lack of water in the other places makes them uninhabitable. So the refugees can move to crowd the already overcrowded, underemployed areas of the world. That will cause more friction, more wars, and VOILA! That old Balance of Nature will rescue the planet again, and the story will be written in the rocks for the next ‘intelligent’ species that might come along.
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I am not disagreeing with you exacely, but there have been some huge epidemics, the plague the 1400s, the flue pandemic in the early 1900s.
Perhaps those were both natural population corrections.
And of course there have been periodic droughts and floods at various places around the globe.
Johathan Swift wrote about this: "A Modest Proposal"
the excess babies could be sold by the pound for meat.
Satire of course.
The anti-birth control, anti-abortion crowd might prefer selling seniors by the pound for meat, like old dairy cows or beef cows that have aged out of the reproductive cycle.
I must say, that was some pizza. Balance is a vital topic, but you've definitely highlighted those bottlenecks.
then we will see the real "superpower" of this earth and it won't be puny humans.
Great article, maybe you should make midnight pizza more of a habit, Ruth.
You should eat pizza more often Ruth :)
of the dandelions, lol. I guess there always is and will be a balance of nature, but we do a lot of things to upset that balance, viagra is one of them, lol, but also we put animals on an endangered species lists, and then they overcome the lands, it is like that here in NYS, we have so many deer, there is a few days a year you can hunt them, but only a few do that,
so they keep breeding and driving at dusk or after is dangerous, of course that could be a way of weeding out humans, if the accident is bad enough, this is a very weighty subject Ruth, and perhaps it is just the pizza, I won't eat it any more myself, not because of dreams but because I just don't like it, I feel stuffed after one piece, lucky me,, take care Ruth, love you , Elsie
We need to cut down the number of dandelion weeds.
William, think dandelion wine.
Now here's a thought, Ruth, about balance of population: The parents of gay children have done their part.
And also the fates in the big picture has always had a string of meteors coming at us that wipe out many species on earth every time they hit us. And I understand we are due again now.