Nature is Speaking, We ALL Need to Listen
This was originally written as a social commentary piece for my Creative Writing class. Humans like to think that they are invincible, but as we continue to expand our technological abilities and the space we take in the universe, we will start to face problems we have never faced before. Despite humanity being decades from space travel being a common luxury, we are already facing problems that we can not seem to control. The biggest of these issues is population growth. The global population growth rate has been going down over the last twenty years, but the amount of people on Earth has just about doubled in that time(Roser, Ortiz-Ospina I1). This is possible because although fewer people are having children, they are living longer due to technological leaps made over the last fifty years. In a broad term, technology has been growing exponentially since the invention of electricity, but the succession between new types of tech has rapidly gone from years to weeks since the creat...