Thoughts
18
Last Friday was a national holiday and Saturday was one
of my great-granddaughters' birthdays. I was out of state or
traveling when I normally would have been writing. My apologies for
being a day late with the post.
Hopefully, I have set up standards in the last post
that show how the Earth can have accidents like humans. Still looking
at the Earth as a single unit like a human, this week I will see if
the Earth can have a disease like humans.
I
know that the Mississippi River alluvial plain has been stripped of
its' tree so that men can farm the land to make money. With the
farming we have been able to better keep the human population
increasing. With a continuing increase of numbers and expansion of
people, economies grow. Growing economies helps, not universally,
evenly or completely, to sate our natural instinct of survival.
Having children helps us fulfill another natural instinct; that of
reproduction, the passing of our genes. The more people there are the
easier it is to indulge our need for fellowship with others, which I
understand is a third natural instinct. (
since writing this I have come to see where gregariousness is a by
product of survival ) So by changing the Earths
surface, we can have more people, more material wealth, more
gregarious and antagonistic interaction.
What are the results of one organ of the Earth doing
what genetically it is programmed to do? I live in the United States
of America so my knowledge is mainly from this area of the world.
Hundreds of thousands of square miles of land have had trees removed
clearing the land for farming in the Mississippi River alluvial plain.
It is my understanding that the same process is taking place in other
parts of the world. Haiti has been cleared of trees. Areas of South
America are being cleared for farming like the Mississippi alluvial
plain, but the ecology in South America is different. When
agribusiness changed their crops to take advantage of government
subsidies for produce to manufacture ethanol, there was more clear
cutting of trees in the tropical far east to fill the market for the
crops no longer grown by agribusiness in the USA.
Support for the growing population and affluence also
demands more and more energy. Strip mining and possibly the hydraulic
fracturing are making dramatic changes in the Earth. There probably
are many more examples that could be used but I am not familiar with
others.
Earth's population is growing at an enormous rate. Notice on the chart from 1800 through 2010.
Estimated
world and regional populations at various dates (in millions)
Year
|
World
|
Africa
|
Asia
|
Europe
|
Northern America
|
Oceania
|
||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
70,000
BC
|
<
0.015
|
|||||||
10,000
BC
|
1
|
|||||||
9000
BC
|
3
|
|||||||
8000
BC
|
5
|
|||||||
7000
BC
|
7
|
|||||||
6000
BC
|
10
|
|||||||
5000
BC
|
15
|
|||||||
4000
BC
|
20
|
|||||||
3000
BC
|
25
|
|||||||
2000
BC
|
35
|
|||||||
1000
BC
|
50
|
|||||||
500
BC
|
100
|
|||||||
AD
1
|
200
|
|||||||
1000
|
310
|
|||||||
1750
|
791
|
106
|
502
|
163
|
16
|
2
|
2
|
|
1800
|
978
|
107
|
635
|
203
|
24
|
7
|
2
|
|
1850
|
1,262
|
111
|
809
|
276
|
38
|
26
|
2
|
|
1900
|
1,650
|
133
|
947
|
408
|
74
|
82
|
6
|
|
1950
|
2,519
|
221
|
1,398
|
547
|
167
|
172
|
12.8
|
|
1955
|
2,756
|
247
|
1,542
|
575
|
191
|
187
|
14.3
|
|
1960
|
2,982
|
277
|
1,674
|
601
|
209
|
204
|
15.9
|
|
1965
|
3,335
|
314
|
1,899
|
634
|
250
|
219
|
17.6
|
|
1970
|
3,692
|
357
|
2,143
|
656
|
285
|
232
|
19.4
|
|
1975
|
4,068
|
408
|
2,397
|
675
|
322
|
243
|
21.5
|
|
1980
|
4,435
|
470
|
2,632
|
692
|
361
|
256
|
22.8
|
|
1985
|
4,831
|
542
|
2,887
|
706
|
401
|
269
|
24.7
|
|
1990
|
5,263
|
622
|
3,168
|
721
|
441
|
283
|
26.7
|
|
1995
|
5,674
|
707
|
3,430
|
727
|
481
|
299
|
28.9
|
|
2000
|
6,070
|
796
|
3,680
|
728
|
520
|
316
|
31.0
|
|
2005
|
6,454
|
888
|
3,917
|
725
|
558
|
332
|
32.9
|
|
2010
|
6,972
|
1,022
|
4,252
|
732
|
580
|
351
|
35.6
|
- ^ Jump up to:a b c d e Northern America comprises the northern-most countries and territories of North America: Canada, the United States, Greenland, Bermuda, and St. Pierre and Miquelon. Latin America comprises Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and South America. *
What I have said so far in this post is enough to show that not only can Earth have sores like humans, it can also have
diseases. What is cancer:
World
English Dictionary
Are humans a cancer on this Earth? Could we be making this whole world uninhabitable; one
big sore.
*World population chart from:
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