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Sunday, January 26, 2014

Missionay's Position-------Are we but Locust?

I'm not the first person to wonder if the humans were a plague species. It is beginning to seem as though we are showing, and have been showing for some time, the ability to approach the environment as if every once of it can be consumed. Now, we don't just go after the eatable vegetation like the lowly bug, but also recklessly peruse consumption of all earthly things, many just for recreation. We are relentless.


That is right, we scoop up all the fossil fuels we can find and then use it to destroy the natural world and introduce our selected food producing species. So all the diversity goes away and mono crops cover the land. Then they are sprayed with numerous "organic" poisons to make sure those crops maximize production. 

So, as a species, we can run up our numbers to the limit because we believe (that is faith) there will always be more and more food because we are sooooo clever in our lambasting the natural world. . It is now obvious the earth is being trashed as many of the natural systems are being depleted, be it the fisheries, or tropical forests, the atmosphere. They are being consumed much faster than they can be replaced.

The definition below states that as we become over-crowed, we swarm to points where there is more food. But what happens when we swarm to the next area and it to, is over crowed or being "used" ?. Like the locust we consume everything including those revved up GMO plants. One day there will just not be enough at which point we, like locust, will simply die off.

"Research at Oxford University has identified that swarming behavior is a response to overcrowding. Increased tactile stimulation of the hind legs causes an increase in levels of serotonin.[5] This causes the locust to change color, eat much more, and breed much more easily. The transformation of the locust to the swarming variety is induced by several contacts per minute over a four-hour period.[6] It is estimated that the largest swarms have covered hundreds of square miles and consisted of many billions of locusts. Plagues of locusts appear in both the Bible and the Quran,[7] including one of the biblical Plagues of Egypt, where locusts ate all the crops of Egypt."

 Interestingly, there is also another catch, for when the resources we are using to expand this population deplete, we will be hanging out there like Wiley Coyote.


One of the sad parts seems to be we are more like locust than we think in that we appear to have no clue what we are doing--just innate behavior. Every individual that even mentions slowing the consumptive growth or population growth is shouted down. Like locust we can not produce a narrative to approach this very serious problem. So the swarm is forming, in some places more than others, to only meet the same fate of the large grass hoppers. But in our "eating" we eat everything, not just food, but the roots, the stems the branches of all life. What do you do?


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