Humanity left in Isolation or Destroyed?

   

This article is dedicated to all sensible people on Earth starting a New Year 2024  today.

As we bid farewell to the Year of 2023 in a few hours ahead, I was thinking what I should write to end the old year?

Let us pause for a moment to think how long humanity can last on Earth if the human population continues to increase.

Every year there are more humans on Earth than there were in the previous year. Each year the human species occupies more room than on other species of life on this planet than in previous years such that other species of life would eventually be crowded out and be extinct. Would we believe that we can keep them in zoos instead? Let us pause to ponder for a moment that there are about 25 trillion tons of all kinds of other living creatures living and sharing a limited space with us in this world, most of which belong to the plant kingdom. This ought to be since animals depend on plants for oxygen and food to exist.   This is so even if we argue that there are carnivorous animals such as lions, tigers, leopards, wolves, hyena, polar bear, cheetahs, giant panda, and even cats and dogs.

Even though carnivores are a major part of the food web they depend on other plant-eating herbivores for food and nourishment until all animal life must depend on plants for their existence.

No matter how long the food chain goes from algae to herbivores, carnivores, to omnivores, all life depends on plants that were the first to evolve, especially algae and planktons before aquatic animals became possible.  

Many aquatic animals such as zooplankton, tadpoles, algae eater (algivore), small fish, crustaceans, and water-dwelling insects eat algae as their primary food source. Snails, crabs, and sea urchins also eat algae, but they are known to eat red slime algae, green film algae, hair algae, brown film algae, and many other species of algae in the saltwater. Other animals eat fish that feed on algae or lions that feed on herbivores such as zebra, giraffe, buffaloes, warthog, and antelope species and even elephants besides eating other carnivores as well. In fact algae are the basis of different energy production for plants and animals. Let’s look at what eats algae one by one down the food chain? 

When one form of life is being eaten, and another eating the eating animal in the long food chain the total mass of the eater’s amounts does not exceed 10 % that of the eater. If the eaters flourish too freely, then too much of the potential food is eaten and famine sets in. The eaters die off and the eaten recovers. Overall, then the total mass of animal life on Earth is approximately a tenth the total or 2.5 trillion tons.

Some of the animal life on Earth are human animals zoologically-speaking. 

I make no apology for calling ourselves, including me, as a human animal. This label was not given by me, but by scientists who are expert zoologists. Here’s is what they classify us:

Domain: Eukaryota

Kingdom: Animala (Animals)

Phylum: Chordata (animals with a notochord, dorsal hollow nerve cord, an endostyle or thyroid, pharyngeal slits, and a post-anal tail)

Class: Mammalia

Order: Primates (examples: monkeys, apes and chimpanzees)

Suborder: Haplorhini

Infraorder: Simiiformes

Family: Hominidae

Subfamily: Homininae

Tribe: Homininae

Genus: Homo

Species: Homo sapiens

(Linnaeus, 1758)

As at the present moment in time of writing in the year 2023 that shall end within a few hours the world human population is 8.1 billion.

If we allow for evolving young children, assuming the average weight of a human is 65 kg, then the total mass of humanity is 5.3 x 10 ¹¹ kg (52,6500,000 metric tons).

But the total mass of other animals on Earth is less than 10,000 times as much as human animals creeping on the surface of this Earth. Since there are an estimated 2 million different animal species competing for space with human species on Earth the mass of humans is about 200 times as great if every species contributed equally to the total mass.  But unfortunately, the rise in human population far exceeds those of other animal species. If this rapid increase in human animal population is left unchecked, then the total mass of other animals’ life will only be less than 4,800 times as much as human animals at the end of 2023.

If the doubling of humans continues unchecked, then in 423 years, in the year A.D. 2447 the total mass of human animals zoologically is equal to the total mass of all other animals on Earth. That’s a tremendous lot of doubling. 

 This growth includes not just birth, but death rates, the net sum of. 

Can we afford all these doubling? In the last ten thousand years since the first human civilization, our population on this planet has doubled only a little over seven times. Can we afford to continue doubling our population a little over fifteen times in less than five hundred years?

For most of human history, the global population was a tiny fraction of what it is today. Over the last few centuries, the human population has gone through an extraordinary change. In 1800, there were one billion people. Today there are more than 8 billion of us. This growth includes not just birth, but death rates, the net sum of. You may check the human population growth yourself.

 Even if we believe that human scientific knowledge has progressed so much and so fast that we can afford to continue to feed the increasing population no matter how often or how fast and how fast our doubling can continue to feed the population a little over fifteen times in less than five hundred years?

If the total mass of human animals becomes equal to the total mass of all other animals sharing a limited space here on this Earth in A.D 2446, it would take all the plant life on this planet to feed all the vast humans alone who hopefully will still be alive. The total mass of humanity and the total mass of all other animals will be equal, and there will be no room at all, no room, no room at all for any other animals except for human animals.

By then it will not just be rare and endangered species like tigers, Amur leopards, black rhino, Bornean orangutan, cross river gorilla, hawksbill turtles that will be gone, but even cats and dogs will be gone forever. There is just no room at all for any other animals that includes birds, frogs, squirrels, crocodiles, elephants and giraffes, but only human animals will be left in just five hundred more years to go at the present rate of human explosions in a world initially given to plants. There would also be no room for eligible plants to grow for sure except for remnants of tree trunks, wood, barks and roots. Maybe the tide of humanity may have to go back to the time when simple organisms first appeared on this planet 3.7 billion years ago and learn how to mass culture these microorganisms that first gave life on earth. That would be the only edible food left for humans as it was for all other animals from the fossil record around 574 million years ago. The arrival of other animals appears as a sudden 'explosion' in rocks from the Cambrian period 539 million years ago to 485 million years ago.

In A.D. 2446, which is 422 years from this first day of this new year of 2024 there will be only human creatures left creeping on the surface of Earth except over the oceans. They would have to live on plant paste, and there would be no other life or animal left to compete with human animals for food.

Since plants that produce food through photosynthesis may also have to compete with human animals for space, advances in science may force humans to produce other forms of food synthetically using solar energy similar to photosynthesis, making plants redundant.  This may be a dream without considering the presence of plants that provide the recycling of carbon dioxide into oxygen. Even if humans think they can recycle accumulating carbon dioxide into oxygen without plants, but at the rate of human population increase by doubling himself every generation at the present rate, then by the year A.D. 3500 – 1,476 years from the beginning of this new year in 2024, the mass of human animals will be equal to the mass of this Earth. But of course, this is practically not possible since the mass of Earth is fixed at   6 x 10 ²⁴ kg or 6 x 10 ²¹ (6, followed by 21 zeros metric tons). Earth cannot get extra mass just because of human population increase. What was extracted out from Earth shall be put back to Earth with no net gain or loss.

Fortunately there is hope for humanity with signs of declining population in certain countries such as Bulgaria, Ukraine, Romania, Japan, and even China currently the most populous country in the world as in the year 2023 that has just ended with further decline hopefully begining with a fresh morning today,  January 1, 2024. 

If not checked, perhaps humanity may think of venturing out into space to occupy other worlds   to do the same. But if we were to continue multiplying at this rate, mathematical calculation would tell us that by the year A.D. 6,800, that is 4,776 years from the beginning of this New Year 2024 this article is written, the mass of humans would be equal to the mass of the entire Universe.

So, we need drastically to do something about our insane increase, no matter how we are going to do this, we must do it the right way. But if we are unable, then it is not the other animals that will disappear first, but it will be us – humans animals creeping all over the surface of this Earth that will be the endangered species.  We were the last to appear on Earth, but we shall also be the first to disappear from this planet.  All other animals considered to be the meekest and the humblest of life God created, shall take over Earth once again, and Earth shall regain her former glory where the meekest of animals like planktons and algae that were the first to appear on Earth, shall reign over this this Earth once again as foretold by Jesus.

Jesus also said it is also best for women to be baren and not to have children as children will add to the misery of overpopulation  

"Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.” 

(Matthew 5:5)

For indeed the days are coming in which they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, wombs that never bore, and breasts which never nursed!’

(Luke 23:29)

See also  article:

“Our Dilemma of Over Population”, published on Monday, August 1, 2022 here:

https://scientificlogic.blogspot.com/search?q=over+population