This Is No Ordinary Time in History
We live in the early decades of the 21st century, which has caught us in a time of converging extremes. What constitutes those extremes?
Ten of them come to mind: human conflict, Chinese expansion, disease proliferation, catastrophic climate destabilization, mass human migration, economic chaos, plastics-poisons injected into our oceans, massive species extinction rates, horrific overuse and exhaustion of natural resources, water, and, "The Driver of It All", human overpopulation. We could probably come up with another dozen extremes, but it would take a book.
Vladimir Putin's Russian attack on Ukraine has killed over 2,000,000 young men in four years of war. Over 75,000 have been killed in the Gaza/Israeli War in three years. U.S.-Israel war with Iran. India-Pakistan conflict. The Syrian civil war.
As human numbers increase to extremes around the planet: countries fight for water, energy, arable land, resources and turf. For example, China cannot feed its 1.4 billion people. It grows environmentally more unsustainable with each sunrise. Thus, it expands into Africa, South America, Europe, Canada and America. Please note: demographics determine superiority and destiny. Remember what happened to the Native American Indians. Additionally, India, at 1.48 billion people staggers into each new day with horrific environmental, water scarcity, food insecurity, pollution and human misery on a scale unheard of in human history...
"Chinese are buying up port cities in Italy and taking over the textile industry. Those businesses that didn't sell to Chinese are being put out of business by the Chinese. There are some neighborhoods in Italy that are only Chinese now. There was an outcry from the US but Italy ignored the concerns."
The exact same thing happened to Vancouver, BC, Canada where Chinese immigrants now dominate at 65 percent. They continue to force out Canadians.
"Metro Vancouver is home to 512,260 Chinese, whereas the Greater Toronto Area is home to 679,725 Chinese immigrants." (Census of 2021)
In America, Africa and South America, Chinese buy land and take-over businesses. China owns 384,000 acres of land in America. China would never allow Americans to buy land in China. Chinese are chain-migrating by the hundreds of thousands into Canada and America.
Disease proliferation: tuberculosis kills 2 million people annually according to the United Nations. That's year after year. The Covid 19 pandemic originated in Wuhan, China... As humanity increases by another 1.6 billion people, net gain within 24 years, to jump from 8.1 billion in 2026 to 9.7 billion by 2050, look for more pandemics that will kill millions. (Source: United Nations population projections)
Catastrophic climate destabilization: because of our extraordinary carbon exhaust of fossil fuel burning of 100 million barrels daily, coal burning into the billions of tons, wood burning and methane gas exhaustion - we continue to set in motion responses from Nature that we cannot understand nor do know the outcome as to long-term ramifications. Think: Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Plastics and poisons: 170 trillion more pieces of plastic tossed into our oceans on top of the trillions we've already tossed in the past 50 years. (Source: Scott Simon, NPR)
"There is an estimated 75 to 199 million tons of plastic waste currently in our oceans, with a further 33 billion pounds of plastic entering the marine environment every single year. This constant flow of plastic production is simply too much for existing waste management and recycling infrastructure." (Source.)
When it comes to poisons, "Around 40,000 to 60,000 chemicals are actively traded in commercial markets worldwide." All those chemicals eventually end up in our human food chain, soils, ground water, and ultimately, our oceans. All those poisons contaminate our food supply.
It's my observation, that back in 1970, at 3.5 billion people on the planet; we focused on overpopulation on that first Earth Day. We were warned about our impending future and that we needed to change course. First world countries did change to 2.03 children per woman, but third world countries decided to "floor it" by adding another 4.6 billion of themselves to reach 8.1 billion, as if tomorrow wouldn't come. Religious leaders applauded and praised endless population increases. So did corporations worldwide. Consumption driven by population growth yielded massive profits for a very few. To hell with the environment or quality of life.
Well, tomorrow is here in 2026.
It's here and it's going to get dicey. We will keep adding another 1.6 billion humans, as projected, to equal 9.7 billion humans by 2050. Mother Nature will send another form of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Guaranteed!
Extinction rates? What will we do when the elephants, lions, tigers and thousands of marine species are driven to extinction?
"Estimates suggest that anywhere from 24 to 150 species go extinct every single day. Because millions of species remain undiscovered and uncatalogued, this figure is debated, but experts generally agree that the current rate of loss is hundreds to thousands of times higher than the natural background rate." (Source.)
Resource exhaustion? You will discover a sobering book by Mr. Chris Clugston: Blip: Humanity's Self-Terminating Experiment with Industrialism. He speaks to a 300 year "blip" since 1750 at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution where we've been exhausting all the metals, minerals and resources of the world. That "blip" will end by 2050, if not sooner. Once we cannot dig those non-renewable resources out of the ground, such as oil, our massive populations in cities will not be able to exist with adequate water, warmth and food. They will collapse. What cities are they?
- Guangzhou, China: 73,600,000 residents
- Shanghai, China: 42,300,000 residents
- Tokyo, Japan: 41,300,000 residents
- Delhi, India: 36,900,000 residents
- Jakarta, Indonesia: 29,800,000 residents
- Mumbai, India: 28,100,000 residents
- Manila, Philippines: 27,100,000 residents
- Mexico City, Mexico: 25,600,000 residents
- Seoul, South Korea: 25,400,000 residents
- Dhaka, Bangladesh: 23,700,000 residents
What about water? Third world people utilize five gallons of water daily. When they reach America or any First World country, that person uses 80 gallons of water daily. When you add millions of people to America, Canada, Europe or Australia - you push water consumption into the trillions of gallons daily - beyond carrying capacity of a finite amount of land and water supply.
Mass migration? In 2026, Africa houses, 1.4 billion people. United Nations projections show Africa jumping to 2.0 billion people by 2050. As you noticed in the past 10 years, millions of Africans have invaded Europe. Millions of Middle-Easterners have invaded Europe, Canada, Australia and America. India, at 1.44 billion grows by 18 million, net gain, annually. Their citizens flee India to Western countries through "chain-migration" by the millions. The same with China, Indo-China, Mexico, and more. As the world populations grow by 1 billion every 12 to 14 years, there is NO END TO THE LINE OF MIGRANTS FLEEING TO FIRST WORLD COUNTRIES.
This is what the future will look like:
- America remains on course to jump from 340 million to 414 million by 2060. That's 74 million more people to feed, water, transport, house, warm, and destroy the Natural World.
- America's top 20 cities will double in population. New York City will jump from 8.5 million to 16 million. The State of Florida expects to jump from 23 million to 28 million. Extrapolate those numbers across the board.
- Pollution rates will soar over big cities like Denver.
- Plastics and poisons will continue to strangle our oceans.
- Continued species extinction rates will alter the Natural World by creating imbalances that cannot be solved or corrected.
6. Worldwide, a Child Dies Every 10 Seconds From Malnutrition. It's a tragic truth that more than 3 million children die from hunger every year. And between conflict and climate shocks, the number of children facing extreme hunger is on the rise.
7. One is six children in America faces food scarcity. How much will that number jump with another 74 million people?
The future is up to us in the present!