Mark Strickland
2 min readOct 7, 2019

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I cannot confirm or deny all of the facts in Umair’s story (such as the CIA distributing cocaine) but it all seems plausable.

BUT … I would propose what he writes about are all results and not a root cause … and if they are results maybe we can correct the root cause.

Is it possible that the Earth has exceeded its Carrying Capacity? A biological term when there are too many organisms in an environment. You can read about it in Wikipedia or many other places.

One unfortunate side effect of this overpopulation problem is the growth of the predator population. Wikipedia separates the effects of animal and human overpopulation. I would propose that maybe some of the behavior of humans is animal like. But sadly the human predators sometimes target only those that are “different” from themselves … maybe because of their intelligence not in spite of it.

But humans are conflicted. Because of the obsession of humans and predatory capitalism to have continuous growth some want more “customers” for their products. This desire for growth then adds more mis-use of resources and more predatory practices.

I do offer here my apologies to the real scientists because I cannot actually show with scientific proof that this is true. But based on climate change alone, without some severe behavior changes by a majority of people, it is clear the Earth cannot sustain more humans for very long.

Maybe humans are a strange dichotomy and our intelligence has created our imminent dystopia while our predatory side has made us want to hurt other humans and rid the Earth of those not like us.

I am likely to live another decade or maybe two. Hopefully I can look back and see that I was wrong and humans did have the ability to change socially, environmentally, and humanistically.

Or … Mother Nature to the rescue … of her planet Earth.

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Mark Strickland
Mark Strickland

Written by Mark Strickland

A software developer, amateur photographer, a bit of a political activist, and working on my scientific skepticism to better understand myself and the world.

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