In 19th century, the world population reached 1,000 million people; in the middle eve, there were around 450 million people and in antiquity, records show that around 5 million people inhabited the Earth (Haub, 2011). Nowadays, there are over 7 billion inhabitants who share the same natural resources that our ancestors did hundreds or thousands years before us (Worldometer “Current World Population”). Imagine that the same renewable raw materials that we are using today in common with other 7 billion people, were used for accommodating the needs of 1000 million people just 200 years ago.
Mathematically speaking, from the total land area of the Earth, which is around 57,308,738 square miles (Pianka “Land”), each individual would benefited of a portion of 0.057.308.738 square miles in 19th century, as compared to the current value of 0.007.746.230 land that would revert to each individual today. This simple calculus shows that we are facing a strange and dangerous situation that affects the quality of life for the superior beings, which is caused by overpopulation. Knowing that in the past, people lived on this same Earth, enjoying the consumables of its land that provided them suffice energy and strength to live a good life, it seems really unfair that we cannot reproduce the same living conditions from 200 years ago. Today we have to share our resources with people who live an intolerable long life, with an increasing population of people with mental or physical disabilities and with migrants. Why should we feed the migrants from our resources? Why should we continue to nurture the elderlies who have no utility for the society? And why, indeed, why do we need to care for the people with disabilities, who serve nobody now nor will they ever be productive to the society that becomes increasingly impoverished with each new birth of a disabled person?
For a society is like a cell, wherein all its constituent members represent its internal particles that support its healthy living. But if some of its internal particles are seek and unproductive, they cannot contribute to maintaining the cell in a good health and prosperity. Moreover, consider that these seek particles continue to spread and spread, threatening to consume more resources than the cell has to offer. Such a situation would impact the strong particles, which concentrate all their efforts for keeping the cell healthy and prosperous. But with increasingly seek particles, the cell would die, and its strong particles would be lost. Imagine that the cell could be treated. Think about a healthy cell, as representing a strong sustainable society that would only incorporate the strong citizens, capable of supporting the society and its values. A society needs high living conditions, which cannot be achieved as long as people who loafer in old age, disease or political asylum continue to exist. A society needs only its strongest members, people who are capable of hard work and can demonstrate resilience, endurance and the ability to survive in difficult conditions. Only those who can serve the well – being of the society, that is, only those particles that can be of good use to the cell, should have the right to continue living.
You, the superior people, understand the problem of overpopulation because you see your daily resources diminished for feeding the old people, disabled people, immigrants, or any others who do not contribute to the well-being of the society. You are pressured by a social tendency that is called “sustainable consumption” (OECD, 2008). This concept was invented by the sluggish and the paupers to teach you that you don’t need a new pair of leather shoes in each month of the year, or that you should not buy a mink coat whenever you want to.
They are telling you, the superior people, who contribute to the well – being of the society with your monthly paycheck, how to spend your hard working money and how to have fun in holiday. Can you believe that they are about to ban the all-inclusive holidays? They say that poor people are dependent on the subsistence agriculture and that the world’s resources are wrongly concentrated to serve people with stable financial situation, while depriving those from the poor communities (Tourism Concern, 2015). They say that you eat too much and throw away good food, consuming irresponsible.
Indulge me in explaining who did not have this problem. People living in the 19th century did not have this problem. Why? Because they were 1,000 million. People living in medieval time did not have this problem. Why? Because they were 450 million. And also, people living in antiquity did not have this problem. And why do you think they didn’t? Because there were only 5 million eating as much as they wanted, consuming everything that they could buy and throwing away everything that they did not need (Haub, 2011).
I ask you now, why should you be any different? Why must you support from the efforts of your hard work, the ones who cannot support themselves? Why should you not have the benefit of having access to more resources?
There is one solution for concentrating the sluggish people to serving your needs, while also answering the overpopulation issue. In your efforts to purchase the best products or to have access to the purest natural resources, you need the guarantee of quality. Of course, as you evolve you are becoming an increasingly more sophisticated individual. Yet, the effects of inadequate products can affect you severely, by poisoning or even causing death. This unwanted situation can he handled by integrating the old, disabled and immigrants in programs that can be beneficial for the superior and strong people who have the physical and the mental capacity to work hard for maintaining the society. It the Ancient Sparta, people were hardened from a very young age, in order to prepare for the difficult period of war that threatened their existence. The ones who were not fitted enough were not given a chance to live, other than serving for the fittest ones, as slaves (Bristol & Sherman, 1992).
In these modern times, the old, disabled and immigrants could taste your products, such as alimentation, cosmetics, electronics and any other consumable or device that could affect your health and impact your productivity. The most accurate tests for evaluating the conformity of products for people, are made on people. If the tested ones do not survive the tests, the problem of the overpopulated Earth is as good as solved. Let them test the meat, the eggs, the milk, the fruits that you eat produced by unscrupulous corporations in dubious conditions. Let them test the facial crèmes, the body lotion, the shower gel and the soap that you use for hygiene, created in laboratories based on harmful substances. Let them test the weapons that you use for fighting other people and diminishing the world population. Let them test the nuclear bombs, to see how effective they are. You, the superior man, will benefit of the share of land that you deserve and will be able to consume more, further enhancing the corporations’ profitability and boosting the society’s prosperity.
After all, rather than optimizing the resources to feed the growing population, better select all the unproductive individuals, the least fitted ones, and delete them, so that you can benefit of more extensive land, to consume more and throw to waste even more.
References
Bristol, C.M. & Sherman, H. (1992) TNT: The power within you. New York: Fireside.
Haub, C. (2011) How many people ever lived on Earth? Retrieved from http://www.prb.org/Publications/Articles/2002/HowManyPeopleHaveEverLivedonEarth.aspx.
OECD. (2008) Promoting sustainable consumption. Mason: OECD.
Pianka, E.R. (n.d.) Land. Retrieved from http://www.zo.utexas.edu/courses/Thoc/land.html.
Tourism Concern (2015) All inclusive holidays – good for tourists, not so good for local communities. Retrieved from http://www.tourismconcern.org.uk/all-inclusive-report/.
Worldometers (n.d.) Current world population. Retrieved from http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/.
