The Sixth Extinction


Humanity is unique. We have done great things for themselves, creating till we could touch the moon and talk over hundreds of miles. We’ve created so many things to make our societies and future generations as intelligent as us, from language to writing. Yet we’ve failed to address the fact that we can’t go on like this if we want everyone to live.
The planet is overpopulated with humans, that is a fact. You can watch people be born and people die on the internet and just watching that clock move should scare you. Four children are born every second. Our population is growing expoenetionally and this planet can barely handle as many as we have now. There are simply too many people and too few resources. People are dying worldwide of hunger. The population of our species is out of control. It cannot be sustained on what we have on this planet. 
There have been five great extinctions, the most famous being the one of dinosaurs, which was the most recent. Dinosaurs ruled the Earth, the same way humans do now, but they went mysteriously extinct without any way to stop it. During all of these extinctions more than 75% of all species went extinct and the way that we’re overusing and over populating, humanity is the next thing on the list to be extinct. 
In Dan Brown’s Inferno (Warning: Book Spoilers Ahead) Bertrand Zobrist, an eccentric scientist billionaire who thinks humanity needs a reality check. His ideas follow Dante’s Inferno, which was written just before the Black Plague, which killed Dante. Zobrist claims that humanity going to look like Inferno if we don’t do anything about it and the only way to stop it is with a pandemic.  Zobrist creates a virus that renders 1/3 of the human population sterile. Now if you’ve gone to see the movie rendering of Dan Brown’s Inferno, they don’t give the book ending, where the virus gets released… or tell you what the disease is. But that’s besides the point. 
Humanity is on track to kill itself and the whole planet with it. Maybe Dan Brown’s novel was correct. Maybe we can avoid destroying ourselves. Maybe we can avoid this. But the only way to do that is through incredibly drastic measures. Will we take them?

But that's what I think, how about you?

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