OVERPOPULATION

I remember hearing some bleak predictions on overpopulation some twenty years ago. No doubt the Palm Beach County population has enlarged much in the past twenty years, so have Florida and the United States. Our life span has increased. In spite of murderous wars where millions disappeared, humans are procreating at an increasing rate.

The Indian Continent ( India Pakistan Bangladesh) and China are the leaders. The US has less than one fourth the population of China,  

Having dinner in a restaurant shows you oversized portions served to well-fed diners and make the notion of starving people and shortage of food difficult to visualize.

Some years ago when we still had young children at home, one of them complained about his dessert of ice cream. “Oh! Vanilla again.” I could not resist saying: “ When I was your age during WW2 in occupied Paris I did not even know how ice cream looked. There was nothing to eat.” After some reflection my young son said:” Then how come you did not die.” Yes, how come?

Maybe at his young age he had that foreboding that like the dinosaurs the human race -ever increasing with diminishing resources- is slowly working towards its extinction.