The earth is continuing to store more heat thanks to excessive CO2 in the atmosphere. As a result, we are already beginning to experience food shortages as witnessed by the recent spikes in food prices. We are also beginning to experience water shortages as experienced by the decrease in the levels of aquifers all around the world. Then there is the drought, and floods and more sever storms. Oh yes, I forgot, we are also adding about 75 million people to the planet every year. That’s just like adding another Mexico to the planet every year. Unfortunately, the earth’s land mass is not increasing. Where are these people going to go? Where will they live, work, raise a family and so on. The bottom line is that the earth is like a train, a very long train, and each country is represented by one of the 200 or so cars on the train. There are a couple of cars that sill have some seats left, but every other car has people hanging out of the windows AND a long line still waiting to board. The really bad news is that the train as started to roll down hill. The hill is getting steeper and steeper and the train will eventually pick up speed. Unfortunately, the earth-train does not have anyone at the controls. Each car on the train is only worried about itself. So what is going to happen? With no one at the controls how fast will the train be going when it hits the wall at the bottom of the hill. I will tell you how fast and what we can do to stop it in my next entry. Stay tuned.
