Blog 2

Something I found interesting in The Green Halo was this idea of a human population that seeks "to satify human kinds real needs- and not simply frivolus wishes." If you took a step back and took a look at today's Society as a whole, you would see a Society that not only satisfies needs, but also finds pride in having as much "frivolous wishes" as possible. How many live with the simple essentials? The answer is almost no one, and the few who do probably only do so because they are limited by money, because we are a culture which prides itself in luxury and excessive possessions. As introduced earlier in the book, these issues such as over luxurizing life, driving cars, whatever don't seem like much of a problem in early industrialization, because number of consumers were love and the influences on our environment went un-noticed; however, if you take the problems and multiply them by six billion the problems become more evident. While it may sound horrible to say, the truth is humans as a population have become over populated and the earth could slowly be moving torward a change that could kill off many people and equalize the ecosystem again. The over population of human kind leads largely to the need of animal farming. When the human population was small, the need for meat was easily met without the need for farming animals. As animal farming became necessary to meet the needs for the growing human population and consumer market, a void began to form between animals the resource and animals the organism. After reading 40 pages into The Green Halo, I have come to a conclusion that human population is largely to blame for many of the problems in society today, one could say maybe we find ourselves in the problem largely because we crossed a boundary with animal testing. Some could see it as a stretch, but for me it was not so much. Animal testing lead to strides in medicine and technology that improved the ability for humankind to overcome the factors that cause death other than old age (for the most part). Did anyone ever stop to think these factors were introduced into the population by God for a reason? If there is a a merciful and forgiving God, why would he introduce diseases like the plague that spread rapidly through large populations? This leads to a greater questions about values. Do we as a population value the expansion and explosion of the human population or even the life of one small boy with strep thoat over the well being of an entire planet. Take a second to reflect on the idea, when a sick boy dies one family hurts and the rest of the world moves on. Do I care when a 9 year old in africa dies from starvation? And should I care more about that boy then the cow that could have been killed to save him? The answer 40 pages ago would have been easy, but today I would say it is the nature of the beast.