OH GREAT! NOW I GOTTA WORRY ABOUT THAT TOO

Blog number eighty-eight                                  08 May 2007

Every species of organisms have within it, it's own destruction, from microbes to rabbits to humans.  Every species will, if left unchecked by predators or epidemics, die of its own refuse, or by eliminating its food source through overuse.  Rabbits will, if left unchecked, eat all of its food source, for instance.

So I worry.

Ironically, humanity seems to be the only species that has the ability to consciously regulate its population.  All the other species are stuck with what they have, or with whatever humans allow them.  Irony comes from the seeming fact that humans will never do this.  Humans seemingly will never regulate their population explosion until it is forced upon them by disease or starvation. 

Or dehydration.

Or mass murders.

So I worry.

Asteroids swarm about us, almost any of which, if impacting the earth, will wipe us out.  Same goes for comets.  

If the sun changes temperature by two or three degrees either way, that will destroy most of life on earth, including us.

So I worry.

Now I find out that the moon is receding from the earth an inch and a half every year, and when it gets far enough away, it will lose its stabilizing power on the earth, causing the earth to wobble on its axis such that the poles will be directly under the sun's rays, melting the polar caps, inundating greater portions of the land, and the equator will be darkened for most of the year, resulting in ice covering the rain forests.

I wonder which way would be the most interesting way to die.  Probably the wobbly earth, wouldn't you say?  Least interesting way would be to drown in our own waste, I imagine.  Nasty nasty.    

Being in the middle of an epidemic wouldn't be all that great either. 

Dying of thirst is reportedly not too pleasant either.

Neither is having people try to kill you, I hear.

Better get an assault weapon I guess, with a trunk full of ammo.

Maybe an APG or two also.

And trail mix and a large canteen full of water.

And underlings.

And several large vicious dogs.

And a sharpened Kbar.