Like I have said before...IMO the root cause is greed but a major symptom is over population...in most every thing I do and think...has to do with looking for the root cause and or the big picture...I never did well in school because of it amongst other things...tried the college thing and I couldn't keep up so...
...but for whatever reason I solved many problems at work that even the experts could not figure but I always had time on my side...and I always wanted to learn from those that were well educated such as the great engineers I have had the pleasure to work with...I had to have the root cause well understood...my job was to run the plant but I wanted to know more about it...
but maybe me being a root cause fix kind of guy started as a very young boy...I chopped cotton as a youngster in our field with my family and a few hires...but I always wanted to be around my grandfather who was born in 1882...I loved his stories amongst other things about him...chopping cotton was done for 2 reasons back then...cut some of the cotton plants out so the others could produce more and also to cut out the weeds...I remember cutting the weeds even with the ground because that was easier...my grandfather explained and showed me which ones could be cut even to the ground and which ones the ROOT had to come out because they would sprout again if not taken out...maybe that is what influenced how I think today...if you want to fight alligators you can and it will be ongoing...if you want to get rid of them drain the swamp...but the swamp is there for other good reasons as well...maybe it is the right thing and maybe not...
like was mentioned earlier the world population has doubled 5 times in the last 2015 years...it is now 7.4 billion humans walking, driving, and flying around...
and the last 2 times it doubled happened in the last 100 years which is very alarming to me...parabolic growth and it can only get worse...
but with higher populations, it becomes very natural to those that are born in it...thus a big problem...
dividing the population backwards we can see how it used to be...50 years or so ago the world population was 3.7 billion and 50 years before that it was 1.85 billion (China has between 1.3 and 1.4 billion right now)...and so the world population in different times in the previous 1900 years, the population was 925 million and 46 million before that and 23 million at the first time it was recorded in those 1900 years...I see todays population as a huge problem...My theory is that one of the main reasons why the population was so low back then was due to the technology available to them in those days such as medicine and the ability to grow crops and, or to live off the land as wild animals do today...back then tribes guarded their territory for many reasons but probably the main reason had to do with protecting their main resource...which was their food sources...
I copied and pasted the below message from an article I read...according to the message it sounds like something that is very bad...I see it as something great that needs to happen all around the world...maybe scaling back our world population to about 1/3 of what it is today...let me see...if that were to happen we would have bigger places to hunt...the tree huggers would have more trees to hug...the EPA would be happy because less people to poop in their own back yards and the environment etc...etc...ok...the fanatics will never be happy...
More than 1 in 4 people in Japan are now 65 or older
Japan’s population has dropped for the fourth year in a row, bringing it to a low not seen since 2000.
There were just more than 127 million people living in Japan as of last Oct. 1, which marked a decrease of 215,000 people compared with one year earlier, according to newly released government data reported by the Guardian.
The biggest problem for Japan may be the rate at which its population is aging. The number of people age 65 or older in Japan has reached 33 million. More than 1 in 4 people are older than 65 and they outnumber people 14 and younger 2 to 1. The government estimates the population will drop to 86.7 million by 2060, with people over 65 making up 40% of the country.
Though the problem of falling birthrates and aging population is particularly acute in Japan, a similar problem is also brewing in Europe and the U.S. The federal government’s data from late last year showed that 2013 birthrates hit a record low in the U.S. in 2013, down 9% from a high in 2007, as American women delay having children.
