Despite how keenly aware Homo sapiens are of the potential overpopulation of other species, they don’t seem to think the same laws of nature apply to them. If any other large mammal added a staggering 200,000 to their population each day, humans would be in a panic to control their numbers—by any means possible.
But while humans are surging well past 7 billion, they act like the laws of carrying capacity and finite resources don’t apply to them. I wouldn’t want to be around when nature brings the hammer down and finds humans in contempt. It ain’t gonna be pretty…
By sheer coincidence, I just read the following passage from Rudyard Kipling’s 1893 classic, The Jungle Book. Clearly the monkeys (the Bandar-log) represent humans in Kipling’s story as they “danced about and sang their foolish songs,” ignorant of the consequences of their actions and describing themselves thusly, “We…
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Exposing the Big Game 
Animals and the integrity of the planet will be doomed, an our irresponsibility will catch up with us.
But too many people will not admit overpopulation, and they will not accept the means to control it.
Even those without a religious background think part of life and the American Dream need to include a family with their own offspring.
Agree, we need to get a handle on population explosion, but in addition we need to make other changes like switching to plant based protein and go meatless, stop the captitalist assumption of ever expanding growth and consumption, get away from fossil fuels, go green fuel and energy generation, plant forest and jungles instead of cutting them down, build up and down instead of never ending sprawl, draw a line in the sand of no more encroachment on the wild, in fact re-wild and develop and protect wildlife corridors. Going meatless also stop pillaging the oceans of sea life. The human race is eating the biodiversity into extinction and exhausting the world resources. It is gluttonous and unsustainable.
I’d be happy if we could start by just cutting back on the consumption of meat and everything else – but we don’t have the will or self-discipline any longer, or don’t care about the rest of creation enough. We think if we put up a few wind farms, we can continue on as usual, or even increase our consumption!
Can the birds put up with them.
I don’t think the birds, or bats, will be able to keep up with our ever-increasing consumption and expansion.
Nope. Something’s gotta give…