Posted by
Anthony Rizzuto on Sunday, April 26, 2009 3:08:11 PM
As I mentioned in my previous post "Too many people", those on the left have been predicting dire consequences for decades due to "overpopulation" and have been chastising us to limit reproductivity. Well mother earth has a way of dealing with over population herself as she did in 1918 with the Spanish flu pandemic taking 40,000,000 of the populace out of circulation. Now it appears we may very well be on the brink of yet another such pandemic and while we have tools to fight it that were not in place during the last one, over use of antibiotics may have rendered us impotent in combating the current threat. The earth is quite capable of taking anything we throw at it as the late George Carlin stated on more than one occasion:
"The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through all kinds of things worse than us. Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles…hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worldwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages…And we think some plastic bags, and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference? The planet…the planet…the planet isn’t going anywhere. WE ARE!"