What’s the Problem!

The most reliable charts detailing the growth of human populations (UN  designations) indicate that Homo Sapiens, my species, made up a negligible number around 70,000 years ago.  By the Time the Common Era began 2015 years ago there were 200 million people on earth.  When I was born in 1935 we had grown to around 2 billion people on the planet.  By the year 2000 just over six billion of us were crowded onto five continents and a scattering of islands.  Fifteen years later there are seven billion, three hundred twenty four million (7,324,000,000) of us. 

Technological developments make keeping track of demographic information possible, even for an old retired teacher like me.  I went to the Internet and soon found plenty of information about what happened to people in the past and what may happen to us in the future.  I am left to wonder what in the world can possibly be on the minds of people like Marco Rubio when they stand up in front of Obama Administration leaders like John Kerry and the world and insist that “the deal” with Iran is the most dangerous alternative available.  The agreement, considered by all European  leaders after months of negotiators to be the best option, is now being presented to the American Congress and American people as one that holds out hope for Israel and for the world.  Rubio and all other announced Republican candidates for the office of U.S. President, along with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, insist that the deal means certain annihilation for Israel and disaster for the rest of us.

ISIL/ISIS and all those everywhere who want all 7,3+ billion of the world’s people to live under Sharia law will continue their campaign to destroy Israel, but they won't be successful ultimately. The hope of radical Islam is as unrealistic as the hope of radical Christianity or radical Judaism. There is not going to be a time when the majority of people on earth indorse a religion as the guide for all 7+ billion of us.  There is the possibility, some would say even likelihood, that enough radicals might get together under the flag of one or the other of the world’s religions to do terrible damage to civilization.

If you haven’t yet seen the MOPA exhibit, 7 Billion Others, go right away.  Also, take a look at the August issue of Scientific American.