Bill
The huge number of people we have on the planet is the main reason that it has gotten a bit messed up.
this is a huge planet !
there are only slightly below 7 billion people today.
if you were to place all of the 7 billion humans in a 1 meter square space , they would only occupy an area of 52 miles squared.
I would think that the main reason we have messed up the planet so much in such a short time is because we really are stupid people , we are stupid people because we are supid enough to rely on the stupid smart people for guidance , if we were smart people we would be powering almost everything using solar power and wind or other alternate energy sources that are highly available but are not affordable.
and if we would have taken that road decades ago the planet would not be in the shape its in today.
we had it , we didnt use it because it was priced out of range.
its still out of range for most people of the world.
so even though we have made many glorious progressions in technology and science and in almost all aspects of creature comfort.
YES , we really are that dumb.
or it would be better if we said that
those who could have been smart and chose to be stupid even though they were smart enough to know better are really that dumb.
in other words the people as a whole are not dumb , its the stupid smart people who really are that dumb.
