The Answer to All of the World's Problems

If you've taken an ecology class or even a high school biology class, you may remember that one of the first ideas you came across was the concept of carrying capacity of a given species in a given ecosystem. In short, there is only so much a given species that can exist in a given ecosystem before the species seriously fucks up the enviornment and there is a population decline in the subsequent generations. In short, if there are too many wolves in the forest, they will kill too many deer and there won't be enough food for their children, so many of them will in turn starve to death.

Humans like all animals are no exception. The fact of the matter is there are about 6.6 billion people on the earth right now. I've heard estimates that if we continue at the same rate of population growth, there will be around 20 Billion people by the end of the century. Given that, it's only a matter of time before we excede the carrying capacity on earth, if we haven't already. As a result, one way or another we are going to fuck up our enviornment, whether it is through global warming, depletion of our fisheries, exhaustion of farmland or a hole in the Ozone layer. We can try to tackle all of these problems, but they are merely effects, not the actual cause. To pose an analogy, it would be like rowing along in a rickety old row-boat. As soon as the boat springs a leak, you plug it with your finger and continue rowing on until it springs another leak and another leak, until you don't have any fingers left and the boat inevitably sinks in shark infested water.

In short, we can keep trying to tackle global warming or whatever enviornmental issue, but inevitably, something else will come along, because there are too many God-damn people and it is too taxing on the enviornment to feed them all. I like to think this problem is the legacy of the enlightenment, which sought to end human suffering through reason, but the fact of the matter is LIFE IS PAIN. We are here on this earth to suffer and we may not like it, but we have to get used to it. The only way we are going to solve this problem is by bringing on a lot more pain.

As a result, I propose a simple solution to our growing enviornmental problems, especially for those of you living in America, because Americans are by far the biggest consumers of, well, everything. 1. Go out to the nearest gun store. 2. Buy a 12 guage 3. Knock on your neighbor's doors and 4. well, you get the point. Just think how much we could reduce carbon emissions if everyone in America offed their neighbor!

In any case, if your devotion to the enviornment is not that strong, I suggest you sit back, relax and enjoy the golden years. You must remember that a hundred years ago, your ancestors were probably living in a hut without plumbing, electricity, TV, the internet or even facebook. So why worry about the enviornment and doom and all of that, it's going to happen one way or another and plain and simply we're not willing to take the only course of action to stop it. So let's just sit back and enjoy the ride. Let the band play while the Titanic is sinking.