The human species seems constitutionally incapable of limiting it's reproductive levels to those that can be sustained by the planet's natural resources. We've become a ten foot diameter ant hive on a 20 foot planet. Once all the animals and plants are consumed, it will be on to cannibalism or drowning in our own waste products.
    There are humans in mass everywhere, under every rock. We're like some out of control bacterial plaque or cancer eating up the host.
    Ok, so I'm part of the problem - no solutions, just heavy disappointment for what I and the other 6+ billion members of my species have managed to inflict on the biosphere. The problems are so large, complex and overwhelming at the present population levels; nothing short of a global Vulcan mind meld is going to alter the state of affairs. The scale of humanities dwindling ethics, depravity and selfishness appear to be firmly embedded in our genetic blueprint at this point.
    Maybe a global government, but then politics have become nothing more than personal interests masquerading as public service. The private sector . . . well, the majority of corporate CEO's have become Bernie Ebberized to the point most would sell their mothers for ground dog food, at the right price.
    Short of mother nature unleashing some viral calamity that wipes out 95% of humanity in the short term, the prospects for salvaging the planet from the lethal effects of over population seem bleak. Though, each time one of us decides to not add another one of us to the burgeoning billions already squatting on this ravaged planet, a flicker of hope.

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