Steve's barking;thining of the herd

The world is in trouble. There are more people alive today then in all the history of world ( I think).
(Mother) Nature and man himself thinned the herd. Mother nature by disease, man by war.
Man is destroying the earth, but then again we were always destroying the earth.
Man has always been running out of food. In the17th century economist said we will run out of food, not knowing that man would create ways to increase crop production.
Getting back to subject, through out history man has thinned the population through wars, the only mass death in war is the Middle East and in Africa, but in those places you have a population explosion.
The question now is will mother nature thin the human herd by disease, even though we seem to be curring  the old ones on  a record pace new and nastier ones seem to be popping up every day.
Maybe man will thin the herd with sugar. I keep hearing about how obesity going to make the life span shorter in man.
Well instead of war we've created climate change, that maybe man helping mother nature thin out the herd.