The number of people in the world is increasing at an exponential rate with each passing second. It took 123 years for the world population to reach 2 billion from 1 billion, and 33 years to reach 3 billion. After 14 years, the world population increased to 4 billion, it took 13 years to reach 5 billion and only 12 years to reach 6 billion. The world population today is 7.75 billion. We are expected to reach 10 billion population in 2050.
On the other hand, the wealthy created by the states struggling for global domination during the world wars, that is, only close to 1% of the population, have more money than the individuals who are members of the remaining 99%. There are thousands of scientists who say that we are heading towards the years when income inequality will increase and social polarization will be the greatest reality. On the other hand, increasing carbon emissions due to population increase the effects of global climate changes. No matter how logically we think about it, we come to the conclusion that the world will soon fill the human quota. This brings with it resource scarcity.
In the meantime, it should not be in vain to try to go to Mars and to embrace methods that promise eternity such as solar energy:
In this article, we examine a ruthless method that has been brought to the agenda to solve the unprecedented crises that are expected to occur in the future, before they happen.
The following person is named Thomas Malthus, a demographer, and he has a daunting suggestion for tackling this increase:
Thomas Malthus was a demographer who lived in England between 1766 and 1834. While the world population had reached 1 billion between the years he lived, he started to work on a hypothesis that refers to these days. John Maynard Keynes, one of the most famous economists of the next era, commemorated Thomas Malthus with the words “If he were alive today, the world would be a better place”. Malthus said that the world’s population would one day reach the saturation point and stated that this would cause mass murders.
According to Malhus, “resource shortages arise when the rate of consumption exceeds the rate of production” in any field. The consumption rate is directly related to the increase in the population. In those years, he argued that policies such as getting married late and having fewer children should be encouraged in order to prevent possible disasters. After a certain limit was exceeded, nature would annihilate individuals who depleted their resources and upset their balance. He called it “natural equilibrium,” referring to mass extinctions that had occurred before man was even on earth. All of these extinction disasters had happened naturally.
Based on Malthus’ hypothesis, the idea of ”balancing the world’s population with artificial disasters” also inspired fictional characters:
Two great world wars and various epidemics have been overcome in recent history. Every single factor has cost the lives of millions of people. During the wars and conflicts of the 20th century alone, around 150 million people lost their lives. Today, it has been understood that waging war in order to balance the world population will not be a very valid method. War was blatantly murderous. According to some theorists, numerous methods are being planned to mask the murderousness and make the mass killings look like an accident.
Technology, on the other hand, plays a major role in the functional realization of these methods. Computers once used to crack submarine codes now make predictions about the future world population. Among the simulations, there are also brutal scenarios in which millions are lost to history as a result of any epidemic. Epidemics such as smallpox, tuberculosis and leprosy that ravaged the world in the Middle Ages are a great reference for those pursuing mass slaughter.
The 20th century brought the concept of globalization into our vocabulary. Today, while much of the world is still trying to unravel the basic logic of globalization, leaders of countries like the United States say at international meetings that they now “find it absurd”. The world is starting to take shape in the hands of more selfish people day by day:
Malthus was perhaps unaware that his thoughts would inspire malicious people in the future, but he already gave them the spark they needed. Today, we are talking a lot about a character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, one of the most popular works of the culture industry. Although this character was fictional, his aim was to wipe out half the population in order to avoid shortages of resources. Maybe Thanos did it with a snap, but it’s easier to kill people than snapping a finger. No one can say that these thoughts are not engraved in people’s perceptions with a cultural structure.
Your favorite Marvel characters have given you the most violent scenario of the potential future, in fun language. Those malicious people, whom we will later call Thanos, will not come from another planet, they are already among us.
Sources: Learner.org, United Nations, Forbes, Forbes 2
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