We are destroying the ability of our ecosystems to sustain life. At the same time, we are polluting the remaining resources around us, including our air and fresh water. Our increasing population is using up the resources of the Earth. Not only is the population increasing, but huge numbers of people are entering the middle class consuming more meat, more cars, more and larger houses. Mother Earth carries 7.4 billion people on her back now, and She is projected to carry 10 billion by 2050. Since the Industrial Revolution, our population has been growing at an exponential rate, taking fewer and fewer years to double itself. The Human population has become an infestation on the Earth. Here in this Essay, we explain why that is so very important. 2Īs we said in in our Essay, Leading an Ethical, Moral Life, a central moral principle of the Our Practice is: No one shall biologically father or mother more than two children. “Because all creatures are connected, each must be cherished with love and respect, for all of us as living creatures are dependent on one another.” – Pope Francis I. And for humans, who are at this time utterly dependent on Mother Nature’s bio-systems for survival, without the Earth there can be no Continuing Creation. The creatures and systems of Earth are our foremost evidence of Continuing Creation. To have this intense involvement, a person must first know and understand the biosphere and its systems. To live in and love Continuing Creation: The Growing, Organizing, Direction of the Universe - a person must live in and love the Earth, all its living things, and all their entwined relationships. “As a new century begins, we have begun to awaken from this delirium… In short, we have entered the Century of the Environment, in which the immediate future is usefully conceived as a bottleneck…Now science and technology, combined with foresight and moral courage, must see us through the bottleneck and out.” 1 If Earth’s ability to support our growth is finite-and it is-we were mostly too busy to notice. We thereby accelerated the erasure of entire ecosystems and the extinction of thousands of million-year-old species. “While preoccupied with all this tumult, humanity managed collaterally to decimate the natural environment and draw down the nonrenewable resources of the planet with cheerful abandon. It was also a dark and savage age of world wars, genocide, and totalitarian ideologies that came dangerously close to global domination. “The 20th century was a time of exponential scientific and technical advance…, and the spread of democracy and human rights throughout the world. The solution can only consist of better technologies, lower (different) expectations, and/or smaller populations. Out of control human population growth uses up natural resources, pollutes air and water, destroys habitats, exterminates species, and causes global warming which will bring disastrous climate change to our Earth.īy “Overpopulated,” we mean that the Earth does not have the resources to sustainably meet the desires of all its people at least not by using present-day practices and technologies. Today, overpopulation is the main threat to Continuing Creation. Rosen has a PhD in geology.) We encourage everyone to read her article in addition to reading our own Essay, below, here in the Book of Continuing Creation. Julia Rosen called “The Science of Climate Change: Facts, Evidence, and Proof” that is a comprehensive and authoritative run down of the massive evidence now supporting the disastrous reality of global Climate Change. Note : In April 2021, the New York Times published an article by Dr. Overpopulation Threatens Continuing Creation
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