I am listening to a discussion of population demographics based on Japan's declining birthrate with a general comparison to similar situations worldwide. The basic concern of these individuals are things like: Canada faces declining birthrates, unable to cope with large post war birthrate, retiring populations. This, of course, is the cognition a nation must foster continuous growth in its population to create industry.
I wonder how many of us recognize what over-population can do to an industrial system, or any system for that matter. Current humanity trends seem obsessed with the idea we can continuously populate the globe at the rate industrialism requires.
Did you ever consider it from this angle, or have you even considered any of this? If the world we live in is a finite reality with boundaries which cannot be extended, then expansionism, beyond a certain point, is a "fool's parade."
There is one other aspect of this which keeps "gnawing" at my brain. I see a large contingency of the global population sharing insights about equality in the inevitable multi-culturalism which springs from burgeoning populations.
This makes me wonder if the idea of evolution may actually support a linear equation right alongside the ideas which support evolution as non-linear. It would seem plausible when looked at from a historical communication standpoint. It is always the level of understanding which governs any "act" in nature and that certainly proves itself in human interaction.
We have a long history of trying to find the means to survive by communication - even in religious principles, the basis of all culture - though that history is largely filled with violence. The idea of 12 per cent use of the brain, on average, points to the fact we are basically stupid.
As nations become less populated by particular populations and find themselves forced to deal with a mix of different cultures it is arguable that is the necessity, for in that inevitability of industrialism, we force ourselves to recognize we are all of the same family, the family of mankind.
Dennis Ouellette
Prince George
