RETURN TO recent.htm ESSAY-HYPER-LINKS Our survival as mortals is a Faustian-Bargain: 1. Top survive (as members of one among thousands of species) we must in some sense be "superior" kinds-of-mortal-creatures, who are born through sexual unions which are inherently risky in vulnerable relationships --- and must die for others of our kind to survive within God's Astronomically-Tiny Space-Ship-Earth which is Essentially-Isolated from all Extra- Terrestrial Material-Resources like those we are exhausting within Space-Ship-Earth - - - through Exponential-Growth of our numbers and Rates-of-Consumption of Limited-Resources within this Astronomically-Tiny-Space-Ship-Earth. 2. We must work to survive, and thike that we should survive; but avoid destructive: arrogance, self-righteousness, greed, hoarding, posessiveness, egocentric-perspectives, covetousness, and engage in the Mitigation of our Own Alienative- Conflicts with others who are much-like-us - - - yet do not always agree with us about our own priorities! 3, We have grown-exponentially in numbers, but our exponential-growth must be moderatetd as our numbers now approach the limited carrying capacity of our Astronomically-Tiny Space-Ship-Earth; with the growth rate each year dropping in much the same manner as the growth-rate has increased each year in the overall-pattern. The following very rough graphs suggest the nature of the rate of growth of the population and the corresponding total population for the Crew of this Astronomically-Tiny Space-Ship-Earth Fastest POPULATRION Growth-Rate ~ 4%/year * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ** ** * ** ** * ** ** * Increasing Growth Rate ** ** Decreasing Growth Rate * *** *** * *** *** * *** *** * **** **** * **** **** * **** **** * **** **** * **** **** * **** **** * **** **** * **** Exponential Growth Now What? Exponential Decline **** ******** **** ========================================================================================================================= 4000 BC 2000 AD 4000 AD ************************************************** MAXIMUM POPULATION ******** ~ 10 BILLION ********** ??????? ********** * * ??? * * Depleted Resources ??? * * * * Crowding on land at ocean's edge * * * * Rising Waters into Biggest Cities * * * * Running out of Farm Land = Farm Buildings * * * * Global Warming and Climate Changes * * * * Growing World Total Population * * * * Species becoming extinct * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *********** =========================================================================================================================