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I thought a general education class that I missed taking my freshman year would be nothing but a boring 50 minutes every Monday Wednesday Friday. Not the case, in fact it brought up some interesting issues to me and being a senior I think I’m glad Iam taking it now so that I have some higher understanding of the issues at hand. The earth itself is around 4.6 billion years old, I know that’s old. However if you factor in the time that we as thinking humans have been in existence on this earth it is extremely short. The fact is that if the existence of this earth was a 12 hour clock, Homo Sapiens have only been around for about a second of those 12 hours. In that time we have managed to evolve into an amazing species. Civilization and technology has increased in ways our ancestors couldn’t have even imagined. Millions have died as a result of wars, famine, and disease that humans have brought about. Our population has been increasing exponentially over the past hundred years to a point where most experts say by the year 2050 our planet will have a population from 9 to 12 billion people. This is of course if man-kind can go without nuclear war or some new global catastrophe that brings our population down dramatically. If the population does grow to that amount, can humans sustain it? 2005 was the warmest month that the National Geological Service has recorded since it has recorded world temperatures. Can we make it this far without human or natural disasters destroying this planet? I guess the overall question that came out of this lecture was that are we going to follow the dinosaurs before us, or will our technology save us? Maybe if I was a freshman taking this course I would have just forgot about it, but being the well rounded scholarly senior that I am I actually thought about it. What do you think?
Those are some pretty interesting facts babe. Its crazy to think that we, human beings, have only been around for "a second of 12 hours," as you put it. Thats a very short time and yes we have done a lot in that time. Now to answer you question...can we sustain life if the planet gets so populated and such. Personally I believe that the natural disasters that have happened in the past few years- all the hurricanes, and the tsunami- have been natures way of saying the earth is over populated as is. Earth has been around for however long it has been around for. And this last century we have come very far along and maybe we are moving to fast for nature. Weird huh. Im not saying that we are going to die off like dinosaurs because I think human beings will be around for a very very long time, if not forever, whatever forever is. But then again whos to say that we wont die off like dinosaurs. Its always possible! And if nature doesnt get us, with the way things are going, we will kill eachother off. haha just kidding, but again, possible!

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