Jul 15 2009
Population Explosion? Wait a While
In the above photo you can be found a red-shouldered hawk feasting on a squirrel. In the nearly ten years we’ve lived in our present house we’ve had many generations of squirrel come and go. Sometimes their numbers blossom noticeable. But then they go down again. What makes their numbers dip after a climb? Disease and predation, for two.
Will the same hold true for the human population as it blossoms into the many billions? While predation is unlikely to play a role, warfare might. And what is disease but a form of microscopic predation? That could trim our numbers as well.
Of course, we are not squirrels. At least I hope we aren’t.
