Devouring the Planet

So the world's resources will be depleted by the year 2050. Doesn't surprise me that it would happen, but it does surprise me that it would happen so soon. I knew there was a reason I bought a hybrid car. By that time I'll be 70+ years old, and my kids will be geezers, too. What scares the crap out of me is that the grandkids are screwed.

But how is this possible? And why is it happening? Simple. The answer is greed.

Humans, as a species, are greedy. Since the dawn of man, the individual has been striving for...the individual. It's all about mememememe. Of course not every single person who was ever born is like this; there are selfless people out there but those people usually get walked on by everyone else whose sole thought is "mememememe". For tens of thousands of years, man has been trying to get ahead, making life better for himself regardless of the cost to the environment or his fellow neighbor. The result is the world as it is today.

Again, it's not surprising. Maybe it's even a blessing to all the wildlife and ecosystems on the planet that people destroy themselves after ravaging the Earth for the past 400 years.