By Donald Swarbrick.

Mankind always speculates on how the world will be in the future, but as usual, calculates his theories on the environmental situation at that given time,  not allowing for the catastrophes that the earth endures on its journey through time and space.

They speculate on the population reaching a point where our resources will run out, and are already assuming that they are the ones who will be left to solve the problem, not taking into consideration, that a power much higher than them has been taking care of the world since its creation.

Mother nature has a way of turning things around whenever a crisis looms, and tends to solve the problems for us, by creating a disaster, or by useing the bacteria in our atmosphere to produce a virus that culls the population before mankind can find a cure for it.

The recent Tsunami of 2004 in the Indian ocean is an example of how one natural movement of the earth’s crust can tragically annihilate large numbers of people in various countries, which in one fell blow reduced the population instantly, and nullified all the calculations for the future population of these areas.

One small corner of the world, one major disaster, proving the power of mother nature, or of the God who created it all, and promised to watch over us, making me wonder if the mother nature we talk about is really God, carrying out these task to ensure the earth will continue until HE is ready to take us all to his planet.

Now we have progressed out into space we tend to look there for impending disasters that could destroy mankind, but there are still many time bombs waiting to go off around the planet that we tend to put secondary, as we seem to fear an asteroid more than the sleeping super volcanoes scattered around the surface of the earth.

Although these potential killers are still monitered, they are thought to be dormant, but given the fact that the one in Yellowstone park in America, has a history of erupting around every 600,000 years, and the last time it erupted was 620,000 years ago, we have to wonder if it’s hibernation is nearing its end, or if it has exhausted it’s power, and is subdued enough for us to worry less about it.

These super volcanoes are scattered around the earth’s surface in key areas, and with their unpredictability we can never discount their potential to be the cause of another ice age occurring, as the aftermath of just one of them could be enough to decimate the population mankind is so concerned about.

When you look back at the history of earth, and mankind, and think of the number of people that would be  around now if there had been no wars, killing millions, aircraft crashes, road deaths, deaths due to pandemics, natural disaster deaths like earthquakes etc, and deaths caused by disease to name the main causes of our demise, then you will realise that we would have been over populated years ago if it had not been for these occurrences, so like it or not we have to be sacrificed to ensure the survival of our planet. We are being culled just as we cull, and interfere with other life forms on earth to ensure survival.

When we find a cure for one disease, another rears its ugly head, and we  go through the process all over again on our fight for survival down here, as it is a built in instinct in mankind to survive, but we all die in the end, so we should worry less about the population increase in the future, and concentrate more on the present, finding ways to improve our relationships with our fellow man with whom our destiny will be shared, instead of fighting among ourselves.

My God, your God, or mother nature (depending on your beliefs) has power that mankind can only conform to, and no matter HIS achievements, he has little say in his future, or the future of the earth, so the global warming, over population, 2012, or any other assumption mankind thinks he has any say in is out of his hands, and will be taken care of by powers above, and not by us who are only a part of the great natural wonder, “THE UNIVERSE” created billions of years ago by a chemical reaction that continues to evolve, and will keep on doing so long after we are gone from this planet.

We can only hope that it IS our God, and not mother nature that is looking after us, as that way we will survive on the perfect planet “Heaven” he has promised, the survival we strive for, and contemplate during our life on this unpredictable planet that is earth.

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