Note: If you are intending to read/ in the process of reading Dan Brown's latest book "Inferno", I advise you not to go through this blog.
Maybe about a month ago, I had written down "Fuel Shortage. Water Shortage. Food shortage, Electricity shortage. Land shortage." on a board in my room. It's obvious to anyone who is not a mimbo or a bimbo that there are just too many people on the earth and that there are not enough resources to support them.
The evidence is right around us, everywhere. Living in India, it is even more painfully obvious than in some other countries, maybe.
A couple of weeks ago, Dan Brown's latest novel "Inferno" was released and I got my hands on it, ASAP. I was rather pleased to see that it dealt with overpopulation. There were some staggering revelations in the book and I now fully appreciated the serious nature of this issue.
In the book, the antagonist is a genetic scientist who, like me, feels that humanity will face extinction or serious problems is the issue of overpopulation is not dealt with immediately. He pleads with a variety of people who are in a position to do something about it.
Zobrist (the scientist) is either not taken seriously or doesn't receive the desired response. So he takes it upon himself to save humanity. His solution is to create a genetic vector (let's just say it's some sort of a virus,) that randomly makes 1/3 of the population infertile or impotent.
I guess it would be almost impossible to create such a gene vector at the present time, in real life. But it has to be accepted that we need to take overpopulation seriously and must make amends to deal with it.
Here is a fun fact before I sign off. Almost 60% of the world's population is a result of unplanned pregnancies. Chew on that.
Maybe about a month ago, I had written down "Fuel Shortage. Water Shortage. Food shortage, Electricity shortage. Land shortage." on a board in my room. It's obvious to anyone who is not a mimbo or a bimbo that there are just too many people on the earth and that there are not enough resources to support them.
The evidence is right around us, everywhere. Living in India, it is even more painfully obvious than in some other countries, maybe.
A couple of weeks ago, Dan Brown's latest novel "Inferno" was released and I got my hands on it, ASAP. I was rather pleased to see that it dealt with overpopulation. There were some staggering revelations in the book and I now fully appreciated the serious nature of this issue.
In the book, the antagonist is a genetic scientist who, like me, feels that humanity will face extinction or serious problems is the issue of overpopulation is not dealt with immediately. He pleads with a variety of people who are in a position to do something about it.
Zobrist (the scientist) is either not taken seriously or doesn't receive the desired response. So he takes it upon himself to save humanity. His solution is to create a genetic vector (let's just say it's some sort of a virus,) that randomly makes 1/3 of the population infertile or impotent.
I guess it would be almost impossible to create such a gene vector at the present time, in real life. But it has to be accepted that we need to take overpopulation seriously and must make amends to deal with it.
Here is a fun fact before I sign off. Almost 60% of the world's population is a result of unplanned pregnancies. Chew on that.
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