Over Population: It's a Powerful Case

After driving across deserts for four days and seeing almost no one except thousands of trucks, it's a little challenging to think we have run out of resources to support humans. There is so much space. But, we are running out of resources nevertheless.

The link is an interview with E. O. Wilson, a professor of biology at Harvard for 50 years. He has been plotting humans' affect on the environment for decades.

He said three major changes are already documented. They are climate change, water shortages and species extinction. Even the most thickest skulls among climate deniers have to admit these are present.

The ultimate source of all of these is the growing size of the world population and the amount of consumption per citizen of the world. That something should be done about the pressure of population on the world's resources puts a finger in the eye of anti abortion politics. That religious faction of voters cannot allow the growing population to appear as a problem.

Wilson has a lot to say about the origin of humans. He skewers philosophy as a field that can explain anything about the origin or nature of man kind. Prehistory is as important, or perhaps more important, than recorded history. As science moves ahead we are learning more about the prehistoric origin of man. That, along with the modern science of robotics is providing insight unknown until now and opens the doors to spectacular discoveries ahead.

The time has come for those who depend on religion and philosophical arguments to understand how to build a better society need to put such notions aside.