Okay ... just shoot me ... I'm kind of a granola on this one.
On the day i was born there were about 3.5 billion people in the world. Here it is about fifty years later and there are now over 7 billion people in the world.
Think of the globe as being a living,breathing, ecosystem. It can only provide enough natural resources to support a certain number of people. If it exceeds that number the mother nature will step in to correct the imbalance.
She corrects imbalances and reduces populations to sustainable levels in all animals through disease, famine, and war.
Yep .... even dumb animals go to war with other groups of animals for territory & feeding grounds. We humans are no different. (We're not above the laws of nature although we might think we are.)
Now .... look at what is going on in Africa. There's massive overpopulation. The land can't support all of the people living on that continent. There's terrible war. Famine is rampant in some areas. DISEASE is trying to get loose.
HIV / AIDS got loose and killed a lot of people. We got that one more or less contained.
Now there's Ebola. The powers that be fully understand the danger so they will do their best to contain it. They will probably succeed.
Sooner or later some virus will mutate that we can't stop and then things will have to run their course. We've had some terrible plagues in the past and we got through despite heavy losses.
No doubt we'll get through again.
(Just an opinion for whatever it's worth.)
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