Overpopulation

[Guest guest]

Hi Mark,

 

An avalanche is an avalanche. Is it bad? Is it good?

A volcano is a volcano. Is it bad? Is it good?

Is an grasshopper infestation bad or good?

 

All are natural disasters.

 

Are the individual grasshoppers grateful or having a good time/bad

time? Does that have any bearing upon whether the grasshoppers'

overpopulation is a natural disaster or not?

 

Nature is the entire material universe and its phenomena.

A disaster is an event causing great stress or ruin.

 

A natural disaster is an event causing great stress or ruin, in

nature.

 

The term is not generally applied to human-created disasters, since

most humans are civilized, civilized humans are generally living

outside the bounds of wild living, and civilized humans are self-

differentiated from wild humans and species.

 

An overpopulation is an overpopulation. It's a biological natural

disaster whenever and wherever it occurs.

 

A human overpopulation is also a natural disaster, despite humans

being the star of the show and despite whether humans like to call it

good or bad.

 

Whether a disaster is called bad/good/mixed depends on the party

involved. Calling a disaster good or bad doesn't determine (define) a

natural disaster.

 

 

 

Normal means what is the typical, the usual.

 

Abnormal means differing from the usual or typical.

 

Humans are natural to the planet and normal to life, even as they are

only one life form of millions (and could thusly, though

misleadingly, be called " abnormal " ). Disasters are natural to the

planet and are normal to existence (occuring from time to time -

typically), while still being abnormal (infrequent - not so typical).

Stability (long term, stable systems) massively dominate on the

planet, and throughout the universe.

 

Civilization is a state of human society characterized by high levels

of intellectual, social and cultural development.

 

Civilized (domesticated, tamed, non-wild) living, in accord with

civilization, is very abnormal (non-typical) to life and to existence

(nature) itself. Civilized living, or civilization, is not normal

because it is only followed by humans and the animals they

domesticated and not by any other of the tens of thousands of animal

species, let alone the other seemingly infinite life forms such as

plants, insects, and bacteria.

 

From a pure human-biased perspective, there is no human

overpopulation. The same goes for the pure grasshopper-biased

perspective regarding it's occasional overpopulation (note the

grasshopper's overpopulation being so intimately tied with human

agricultural practices - food for careful thought . Overpopulating

humans or grasshoppers will both act as if they are good and will

love the overpopulating process, expectedly.

 

In the long run, no living thing has much of any impact on the

planet, no matter how destructive/non-destructive it is.

 

Thousands of considerations can be invoked, while ignoring all

contrary evidence and logic, to misleadingly " prove " , conclude, or

indicate modern civilized humans are not overpopulating. A person who

considers all the evidence, including the immense stress and ruin

that civilized humans are bringing to earth and its life forms,

concludes differently.

 

Natural disaster: an event causing great stress or ruin, in nature.

 

Using observation and following established definitions, a mind

rationally and sensibly concludes that civilization is a natural

disaster. It's specifically a human-caused biological natural

disaster.

 

That we are undergoing an overpopulation biological disaster is no

reason to not enjoy ourselves, just as an avalanche is no reason for

a snowfake not to enjoy and be part of its ride. It is a reason to

watch out for the unpredictable bumps in the ride, however, since not

much is stable and change is constant as the disaster starts, rises

in amplitude, peaks, and then dies out slowly.

 

 

All in peace, Robert