Steven Earl Salmony

By 'kicking all cans down the road' and confronting no present dangers, perhaps the human community is about to come face to face with the worst of two worlds: the results of a human population explosion and a human population crash. The leviathan-like size of the human population in our time puts Earth's finite resources and its frangible environs at risk because the exploding human population worldwide dissipates resources and pollutes the environment faster than the Earth can replenish itself for human benefit. As a consequence of the 'politically correct' denial of a human population explosion, many too many human beings are invited by their leaders to engage in rapacious per capita consumption and excessive individual hoarding of Earth's body, and to recklessly degrade its ecology with pollutants. Soon to become patently unsustainable overconsumption, overproduction and overpopulation activities of the human species appear to be fast approaching a point in history when the monstrous size of the human population so overspreads the Earth that the human species itself ends up being the precipitant of an unimaginable sort of global ecological wreckage and a human population crash. Where are the stewards of the Earth?

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