Us-against-them human animals

Creatures born unable to feel hunger die. Overpopulation being a dominant characteristic of life, individuals with hunger pangs replace those that don’t.

Overpopulation-selected blindness against understanding this is likely to be “naturally” selected into many of us. So, overpopulation-selected passions are seen more easily when we look at animals other than ourselves.

The same life-force overpopulation that equips sharks with powerful teeth and jaws also imparts the complex of instincts/emotions and passions necessary to use such instruments of violence. In the same way, overpopulation programs hummingbirds with feelings that guide their survival through use of their long, overpopulation-selected, necter-tounging beaks.

Overpopulation drove human-on-human competition that spread mankind across the globe. Millions of years honed passions ranging from love in the best of times, to unspeakable angers and hatreds in the worst times.

Times of OVERPOPULATION POVERTY typically rewarded brutal emotional/instincts.

Thus overpopulation-selected passions have often set the stage for slavery, explained the rise of empire, and in our modern era of nuclear/bio/chemical warfare, now threatens humanity.

Overpopulation competition doubtlessly accelerated development of communication skills inside the human brain. Could there be a faster way to select survivors than be communicating coordinated violence against competing others?

UNDERPOPULATION AFFLUENCE typically rewards softer, more loving passions.

Around the world, many cultures have independently developed notions of Eden, of Creation, of “beginning times” of magnificent plenty!

Occasionally, natural conditions come together to replicate such paradise.

After settlor violence and Euro-Asian-African infectious diseases decimated American First People, Europe’s overpopulation spillover enjoyed for a time unprecedented opportunities. Ben Franklin documented sky-high wages in response to demand for labor when workers were few. He explained that laborers could earn enough in a few years to buy farms supporting large families. (Franklin, Benjamin Observations on the Increase of Mankind (1751), paragraph 6, cited in Adams, Russell Clever but Clueless the Overpopulation Drives Slavery, Genocide, and War, p. 165.) Ben correctly predicted that while land remained plentiful many generations of sons and daughters would repeat their grandparents’ success.

Careful planning could maintain creation for all time!

Why not plan limits to the overpopulation life-force that shapes both our standard of living and the passions that govern our contests with others? Surely careful moderation could favor all people of every race, color, and kind yet to come?