Too Many People
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I was thinking of an old Paul McCartney song today, called ‘Too Many People’. Although the song has a catchy melody, and has the good message that “All You Need Is Love’, there is no lack of things it preaches against – preaching being one of them.
from the song
Too Many People Going Underground
Too Many Reaching For A Piece Of Cake
Too Many People Pulled And Pushed Around
Too Many Waiting For That Lucky Break
That Was Your First Mistake
You Took Your Lucky Break And Broke It In Two
Now What Can Be Done For You
You Broke It In TwoToo Many People Sharing Party Lines
Too Many People Never Sleeping Late
Too Many People Paying Parking Fines
Too Many Hungry People Losing WeightThat Was Your First Mistake
You Took Your Lucky Break And Broke It In Two
Now What Can Be Done For You
You Broke It In TwoToo Many People Preaching Practices
Don’t Let Them Tell You What You Wanna Be
Too Many People Holding Back, This Is
Crazy And Maybe It’s Not Like MeThat Was Your Last Mistake
I Find My Love Awake And Waiting To Be
Now What Can Be Done For You
She’s Waiting For Me
Tells quite a story. Perhaps the largest one is that there simply are ‘too many people’. A reduction in the population of the world would make many problems recede into the background noise.
The ecology is a wonderful, mystical thing, The Earth in many ways is self-healing, but as anyone who took high school chemistry knows – a buffer solution can only work for a certain volume, and strength of acid or alkali.
Beyond that, the barrier breaks, and the transformation of pH is great and speedy. The planet has been a buffer for the human race, preserving us for more time than anyone has thought possible.
It’s time to stem the tide, there’s just…
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Technorati Tags: ecology - overpopulation - buffer - human race - chemistry - pH
2 Comments
leftystrat
June 22nd, 2008
at 7:42am
Zero Population Growth!
Require a license to reproduce.
Why is suicide illegal? Are they going to come get you if you succeed?
Just so long as we strip-mine the planet for the benefit of a few, we’ll all be ok. Or something.
But I practice what I preach: I am not reproducing (thank heavens). Our motto at StratWorld: “No kids, but die trying.”
the oracle
June 22nd, 2008
at 10:32am
When I was single I used to say I wanted to have 3 children, one of each.
It was a test to see how well the person was listening.
But I did stop at 2, one of each. I am of the opinion that any moe than about 4, no matter how wealthy you are, and you can’t spend enough time with each child. These days, it’s probably less. It really irks me when some idiot is shown on television with 20 children and swears that all his /her children get enough attention - I know how that works - the oldest end up raising the youngest, which is not the same, and not parenting.