Overpopulation The Root of all Evil

The other day as I was working my route I arrived at a conclusion about what may be the cause of all problems the earth is facing right now. Or to be more exact the problems the human race is facing.

As I hefted my noticeably heavier mail bag I grumbled to myself: "why are there so many dang people" as I muttered these resentful words I stopped. I thought about it, and realized that, that was the answer. There are to many people. Reliable sources say that as of November 2008 the world population is an estimated 6.72 billion. With this many people on one earth with the concept of the conservation of energy as I will explain below, it can not be expected for the human race to expand this fast and not die out soon.

The concept of Conservation of Energy is that there is a certain amount of matter and there can never be more or less. if you took anything a city for example put it into a completely closed environment and burned it, you would end up with the same exact amount of matter. This ties directly into the dwindling resources issue. Because humans need fuel for locamotion as well as fuel for the body. While we consume we need to create as well.

Because there are so many people we can not create enough to fees the new mouths that humans are always producing. There was a balance once. The right amount of everything and there is an equal amount of consumption and creation. Now humans are consuming faster than the world can recycle the humans waste into a fuel source for either us or our cars.

The answer is stunningly simple. There are to many people. And we are depleting the world's sources of fuel. The human race is long overdue for downsizing. Over the years there have been natural disasters. Things I see as mother nature keeping us in check. With the introduction of modern medicine the population of humans has grown by leaps and bounds and has no intintion of slowing down. Something must be done. The human race must be cut down and held down.

President OBAMA. My reactions, fears and hopes.

Watching with my buddies from work as the electoral votes piled up in Obama's favor, I cheered and watched as he pulled away from McCain with his measly hundred or so electorals. My first reaction to Obama being elected Prez was joy. I liked Obama through-out his campaign because he was very open, non-secretive and strait forward. I once saw one of his ads reading "read Obama's plan on (I forget what) at obama.com" This really just makes me respect him for his own personal drive to respect the social contract within all classes (even if he does focus on the middle class).

Having missed McCain's speech, I had to catch up on it at home, but as I watched it I found new-found respect for McCain rising within me. I was surprised. During the campaign McCain was the one who was the most nasty in my opinion. Especially during the debates, also I never really herd him say a lot about what he was actually going to do, from what I herd he was always just bashing Obama. He really came out and displayed what I saw to be his true self in his speech on electiong night.

One of the biggest things that scared me about this election was Sarah Palin. The mere thought of her being a "heartbeat away" from the president of the united states was a shocking one. With her strong religious beliefs she would have certainly have brought religion into the white house and it would have influenced her decisions. This in my opinion is unacceptable. I have nothing against you using religion in your personal life to help sort out anything you might need help with, but the president must be able to "not blink" and use logic and political know-how to choose what would be best for the entire country. If religion was mandatory and everyone was of one faith it would be entirely different.

I hope that Obama will be able to pull our country out of the hole that Bush has dug us into. I feel that Obama has the determination, and the drive I just hope he can do it. One of McCain's ads rang a bell of truth with me despite my mind-set. It said that "Presidents are elected to lead us. They are elected to guide us through the storm. Obama is in-experienced" or something close to that. Anyway it made me think, that even though Obama has been in the political spotlight before, with his 2004 speech The Audacity of Hope to quote another of McCain's ads; "This will be Obama's first Crisis."

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Jack Emmerson