The Forbidden Word and Nature's Ultimate Error

 Overpopulation. There it is, the word that you never see in discussions of climate change and humanity's future. Nature's grand experiment: the human race. Our species is now on the road that leads to extinction, or at least reduction to levels that no longer allow us to evade nature's hand in keeping species populations within sustainable boundaries. Whatever the outcome of our response to global climate change and the degradation of earth's biosystems, we will no longer have the power to destroy without compunction the very basis of life on earth. 

How do we define overpopulation? At what point in the numbers can we say that there are too many of us? Overpopulation is the number and the point in time where the earth can no longer compensate for our depredations. When it can no longer recover from the damage. We have already gone past that point, yet continue to blindly function as if nothing stands in our way. 

It's all over but the shouting and the suffering. It won't happen overnight; it will stretch over decades and perhaps centuries. But it is happening, and in our ignorance, blindness, and insanity, we will do nothing to stop it. We will do nothing because that's how Nature designed us.