From the mind of Professor Blight

So, I decided to start doing blurbs of things Prof Blight thinks or does. I know full well that his views are mine...taken to the nth degree. Much like when I write a hero who is more pure and selfless than I...it's a part of me to an extreme...so is Prof Blight. In my continuing story, we find that Blight has just passed a law in his city legalizing suicide. His biggest reason? If life is so precious, why is it so east to make? Millions spent every year to prevent it or abort it...must not be so valuable. Now, the Professor (not the coconut wielding one).

Cockroaches. Pests. Poisoned by the millions. We have decided that they are disgusting. So they must go. But how are we better? Like most of the rest of nature, roaches live in equilibrium. They don't over produce. They don't strip the area of resources. And they have predators. But not us...

The average person in the first world consumes 3-6 times what the world can replace (assuming the whole of earth lived the same way). Luckily for the earth, the first world is only a percentage of the total of human kind. But China and India, bastions of populace, are growing up. They are becoming the consumers that we already are. And as they do, they will strip this planet bare...along with our help.

Will technology help this? Possibly. But technology still requires resources. And even if we adopt this magic technology, our upcoming brothers will not have it. And, even if we give it, they won't want to use anything that will slow down their ascent. They won't want to slow down simply because their older sibling is warning them of the dangers. No, they won't lets us hold them back.

And, even with this non-existent technology, the root still exists. There are too many of us, and we keep making more. Even the more "enlightened" of us tend to have two children. Thus ensuring that at the very least, we keep the population stagnant. But lower classes have even more. Producing less and consuming more. Travel to the third world and it becomes worse. Lack of education, funding for contraception, and social and religious stupidities have them reproducing quickly. Luckily in these poorer countries, they don't have a large population of bleeding hearts available to fund their stupidity. As such, nature is allowed to assert itself and hinder their growth. But wonderful us...we are doing are best to stop this.

In the past, wars and plague have helped keep us in check. But now we are so "modern". Most diseases are stopped or kept in check. Casualties in war are low (despite the whining about the casualties in our current skirmish). We are learning to control nature enough so that she is no longer a factor. We turn to technology to solve our problems. So, I will leave them to try and solve the problem of dwindling resources. I, however, will use technology to solve the issue of our over population.