If The World's Human Population Were To Reduce By 99.2%, What Would Happen?
Dear Reader, Imagine a world where the human population has been suddenly reduced by 99.2%. It hardly bears thinking about, but why am I even thinking such a provocative thought? As will be seen it is to hypothetically yet forcefully illustrate (by analogy) the impact on the balance of nature as another species has already been reduced by that figure of 99.2%. Let us just consider the situation. If the human population was reduced by such an amount (and I am certainly not advocating it should), the effect would be that the rest of nature would take over and everything on Earth would come back into balance. The cessation of the slaughter of plants and wild creatures - directly and indirectly - would enable wildlife to get back to where it was (say) 500 years ago. In a healthy, sustainable, state. That would be the end of virtually all the environmental problems we have, and also would probably greatly assist in the solving of the climate change issue. Yet we - as a worldwide people,