The good times are over
"The party's over, folks!" Mother Nature has handed humanity an overdraft notice: "Your bank account is overdrawn!" "Pay up!" "I've assessing you humans an overdraft fee that is increasing each month!"
There are too many humans and not enough planet. The consequences are not pleasant. Global warming or climate change is just one consequence. The real problem is ecological overshoot. Our weather is getting catastrophic because we have put too much carbon dioxide in the air. But many of us humans are currently ignoring the warning signals and looking for ways to put more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
The 2nd consequence of "too many humans and not enough planet" is much harder to ignore. The rich are grabbing and hoarding what they can get, and leaving the poor to fend for themselves -- "economic inequality". The poor, in response, are gathering their children and a few belonings and undertaking dangerous journeys to the more properous and safer lands that the rich live in -- "increased migration". And this increased migration is setting off increasingly violent pushback by those already living there. Food, housing, and medical care are becoming increasingly unaffordable even in the rich countries like the US.
As we humans fight over the declining space & resources, we are getting meaner and more violent. Humans are like the traditional pack of wolves where the hunting is getting harder -- the pack gets meaner and more "snarly". Humans are entering a period of cultural regression, with increasing tribalism, authoritarianism, greater racism and increasingly violent warfare. The mental health and social well-being of humanity is declining.
It's not enough to point out the problem. We must find and create solutions. These solutions will involve changes in how we treat the environment, how we do business and changes in our shared human culture. It wil not be quick or easy. We must begin to think and act in a more holistic fashion.
There are lots of other experts and organizations who have been focused on this problem long before I became aware of it. Their websites, videos, books and other references are posted below.
