You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy.
7 BILLION PEOPLE.
Like insects swarming through a global ant farm, humans are gorging this planet.
7 Billion life forces, all consuming and excreting like a bio toxin with a bad attitude and propensity to throw their gum wrappers on the sidewalk.
Are we a virus multiplying in a petri dish with only so much room, so many resources, so many ways to sustain life?
Or, are we a blessing, God’s special creation, each person unique and valuable to the human equation?
According to a study, the world’s population will tip the scales on Halloween as the 7 BILLIONTH person is born.
7 Billion heads. 7 Billions mouths. 14 Billion hands. 70 Billion fingers curling themselves into an angry fist demanding more.
7 BILLION HUMAN BEINGS! All on one spinning spheroid rocketing through space.
According to Good Morning America, 250 humans are born every minute on this planet.
In the time it has taken me to write this story, a hundred babies have been born.
In the time it takes Congress to get nothing accomplished, a million new souls are born.
Babies that inhale deeply and begin sucking the life out of mother Earth. Babies who need love, babies who need food and water and clothes and a place to live. Babies who crap and excrete.
7 BILLION PEOPLE.
How can Mother Earth nurture all of us. There are only so many “Teets” to suckle.
A reporter went to the streets of Times Square and asked a simple question of Mother Earth’s 6 billion plus….
The question: 7 Billion?
An older woman from Peoria said “There’s just not enough water and not enough food.”
She’s right.
A bride dressed in a veil and a smile from ear to ear was more optimisitic. “It’s great. the more the merrier.”
She’s right, too!
The experts predict the 7 Billionth baby will more than likely be born in India, which is all ready more crowded than a sweaty armpit stuffed with a sausage and sour cabbage.
China has 1.35 billion people, but officials say in 14 years India will be more populous. Oh Joy. More Indians named Mr. Patel to handle my call center woes.
ABC news said that the world’s population is busting at the seems like Rosie O’Donnel in a Catholic school girl outfit.
The Earth’s population has doubled in size since it was an estimated 3 billion in the 60’s.
But that is nothing compared to the time of Jefferson and Napoleon when there was barely 1 Billion people.
Turn back the clock to the time of the Egyptians, and the globe wa a lot less crowded with only 15 million people on the whole planet.
15 million people. There’s more people living a tennament building on the South Side of Chicago.
7 BILLION PEOPLE.
According to published reports; 1 in 7 humans go hungry now. How can the Earth sustain more mouths to feed, more people to nuture?
The good news? The population is abating, slowing.
Will that mean more space for you and me in the future? Possibly? Or will it mean even more garage sales in more neighborhoods selling more crap?
Battle lines are drawn, only time will tell.
But for now, get some elbow room and get it fast Earthlings, because Halloween will mark the birth of the planet’s 7-Billionth person.
Trick or Treat everyone
And that is crazy.