re: #251 Gus 802

Psst. Don’t tell anyone I told you this but Dr. John Holdren was right. Perhaps not in how to attain goals of population control but he and his peers were right.

Of course he’s right. It doesn’t take a genius to see that a vertical population line must inevitably run into carrying capacity, and then the Malthusian nightmare comes to fruition.

But denial is the strongest of human instincts. It’s a survival mechanism. It may also be our ultimate undoing.

It’s a tragic state of affairs when war or disease are the only imaginable solutions to a much larger problem.

Ugh. I envy my cat. He looks so blissfully content right now. His bowl is full, his companion is near, and he knows nothing of his fate.

I wish it could be so simple.

We never should have eaten that fucking fruit and left the garden, so to speak. Alfie, my cat, is still back there in Eden. Only his Eden is a windowsill, for now.

Maybe long after we are gone, our cousins, the rest of the animals, will find a better way. Maybe they had it all along. Ignorance must truly be bliss.