We Need More Growth - NOT

I have often challenged the budding young geniuses that I know with the following problem: We have been doubling the human population on Earth every 35 to 50 years for several centuries. If we had maintained that rate from the beginning, when would Adam and Eve have lived?

The current population is approaching 8 billion people, or in scientific notation, about 8x10^9. For those that have a background in digital computers, a convenient approximation is that 2^10 is just a hair more than 10^3 (2 to the 10th power is 1024, which is 2.4% more than 1000). Thus a billion (10^9 or 1,000,000,000) is 1000x1000x1000, or approximately 1024x1024x1024, which is 2^30. 8 is 2^3, so 8 billion is about 2^33. Thus the population has doubled 33 times since Adam, or 32 times since Adam and Eve.

For a doubling rate of 35 years, 32 times 35 years is 1120 years, so Adam and Eve would have started just about 900 AD. Even at a slower rate of doubling every 50 years, 32 times 50 is 1600 years, so we still could have made it to the present starting at 400 AD.

Obviously the human population growth rate has been much less over most of our history. The problem has been the growth possible in recent history due to the industrial, technological and medical advances.

Now maybe making it from 2 people to 8 billion people in 1100 or 1600 years doesn't scare everybody. But consider this: in another 1100 to 1600 years at this rate, there will be 4 billion people for EVERY ONE of us here today. It is blatantly obvious that this is not going to happen - people would be a couple miles deep over the entire planet. Even at the slower rate of doubling every 50 years, by the end of this millennium there would be a million times as many people with only 5 square feet of land or water to stand on.

Currently the human density on usable land is about 250 per sq. mile, or about 2.5 acres for each person. At current rates we would expect the population to at least quadruple over the next century, which would leave less than an acre per person. By the end of another century we're down to less than a quarter acre, and by 2300 we're down to an area of a small apartment. Remember, if you want roads, farms, malls, etc., then you have to give up part of your apartment for that.

It is the opinion of the author that we are already over a sustainable population for the planet. But even if that is not so, in very few years it will certainly be true. If we do not learn to live with stability, not growth, catastrophe is inevitable.

(c) copyright Marcus Everett, Wallback WV 25285

The Left, Socialism, and Open Borders Immigration

It's not where you are that determines your prosperity, it's who you are.

For some reason unfathomable to a rational person the Political Left always seems to prefer being the last to sink in a bog to grazing with everyone else in a lush meadow. Since Marx promulgated his egalitarian anti-capitalist drivel, the Left has tried over and over to implement his flawed political/economic model, always with the same disastrous results. Whether the example is the communist versions of the USSR, the People's Republic of China, Castro's Cuba, or the Social Welfare States of Europe and Latin America, the final outcome is always a stagnant economy with a starving population.

These people never give up. Their mendacious rhetoric is always able to convince the ignorant and stupid to implement their schemes, always with the same long term disaster. In the worst cases cited above, the mob was stampeded into a 'revolution' to put the Political Left in power. In the more insidious implementations in the modern Western Democracies, the Left has utilized the ignorant and stupid mob to vote them into power. Once their foot is in the door, promises of something for nothing keeps the mob in their pocket no matter how obvious it becomes that the promises are blatant lies.

To guarantee that the gullible mob continues to dominate the electorate, the Left has refined two schemes to drastically increase their numbers. The first is to not only support the mob by wealth transfer, but to actually pay them to breed. The Welfare States in Europe and North America have become baby factories for the Left's constituency. In this scheme, the Left is seeking to augment their supporters by in effect an inverse eugenics mechanism.

Not content with destroying from within the prosperous civilization created by the Western peoples (primarily the currently despised 'white males' and the Judeo-Christian religion), the Left has a second game plan to guarantee the total collapse of Western Civilization. They have opened the doors of the Western Democracies to the Third World, and convinced the unwashed masses that they can all be prosperous by merely moving. But, as the first line of this essay implies, those that invade the First World will not become prosperous First Worlders, but the countries that they invade will become Third World hellholes like the ones they left behind. This has already become painfully apparent with the Muslim invasion of Europe. They have added virtually nothing to the economies of the invaded countries, and the Islamic 'no go' slums that they have created are cancers that will quickly kill their hosts. The U.S. Southwest is on the verge of economic collapse due to the Latin American invasion there. And in both the U.S. and Europe the threat of open borders enabling infiltration of Islamic Jihad is a serious security problem.

The thing that is difficult to understand is why the Left thinks that any of these schemes are in their long term interest. Not only does history demonstrate a high likelihood that their dominance will not last their own expected lifetimes, but their descendants are guaranteed a much less desirable world to live in. These people seem to exhibit a shortsightedness that can only be viewed to be as ignorant and stupid as the mob they exploit.