Do you suppose that Mother Earth is trying to tell us something? Are the SARS and covid-19 epidemics a sign that there are simply too many of us? Some of the poorer countries have birth rates almost four times what ours is. Too many countries in the Middle East, Africa, South and Central America, have more population than their economies can provide jobs for. It’s no coincidence that immigrants from these countries want to live somewhere else.
In Africa, the burgeoning population growth threatens the wild animal preserves with the need for more land to grow crops. The rain forests in South America, often referred to as the lungs of this planet are being cut down for the same need. And now covid-19 with it’s new and more deadly variants, threaten to kill millions more than the 3 million-plus to date with the rapid increases in India and Brazil.
According to Wikipedia, we, in the form of more than 20 U.S. government agencies, use taxpayer money to send food, medicine and other aid to teach farmers the correct way to grow their crops, feed kids their school lunches, and this doesn’t include all the private organizations that also send aid, yet we have thousands of refugees from Africa trying to cross the Mediteranian Sea to get to Europe and thousands more South and Central Americans trying to get into the U.S.
Where does it end? Some of these countries have been receiving aid for decades but nothing changes except the ever increasing numbers seeking a new life elsewhere.
Don Curtis
Stanwood
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