A man died today
The world is none the wiser
His mother's world ends
The world is none the wiser
His mother's world ends
Just under 300,000 people die everyday. 300,000 out of 7 billion. That's a little shy of .005% of the Earth's population. Worry not though, there are about 1 million births a day. But how obscene a population our species has amassed that 300,000 amounts to less than .01%. I personally haven't seen 300,000 in one place. I don't think I've even seen 300,000 different people throughout my life.
I once read that an asteroid of 1km in diameter would be sufficient to snuff out all life on this planet upon impact. But not all at the same time. The worst case scenario would be if it hit an ocean. Best case scenario would be a mass of land. Either way a lot of people would die right away. The survivors would have to compete for food and survive countless earthquakes, floods and horribly cold weather. Competing for food is fine and all but there is no more sunlight, because the sky is obfuscated by ash, soot, and dust from the impact. No sunlight means no heat, no energy for plants. No heat and no energy for plants means the food chain starts to fall apart.
So now all the plants that animals eat are dead, therefore the animals that we eat are dead. We have stores of food but production would cease. Those stores are finite, and when they run out we would need to find alternatives to survive. After all, everything we do is so we can simply survive for another day. Now, many months after this horrible catastrophe, all the animals and plants are dead. What's left? Humans! Probably lots and lots of humans.
Which brings me to my next point. Not enough research has been done on cannibalism, I feel. We don't know how well our digestive system could handle human flesh. We also don't know the psychological implications of cannibalism. Hopefully we'll never have to know, but it's better to have knowledge and not need it than need it and not have it.
Suggested reading: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
I once read that an asteroid of 1km in diameter would be sufficient to snuff out all life on this planet upon impact. But not all at the same time. The worst case scenario would be if it hit an ocean. Best case scenario would be a mass of land. Either way a lot of people would die right away. The survivors would have to compete for food and survive countless earthquakes, floods and horribly cold weather. Competing for food is fine and all but there is no more sunlight, because the sky is obfuscated by ash, soot, and dust from the impact. No sunlight means no heat, no energy for plants. No heat and no energy for plants means the food chain starts to fall apart.
So now all the plants that animals eat are dead, therefore the animals that we eat are dead. We have stores of food but production would cease. Those stores are finite, and when they run out we would need to find alternatives to survive. After all, everything we do is so we can simply survive for another day. Now, many months after this horrible catastrophe, all the animals and plants are dead. What's left? Humans! Probably lots and lots of humans.
Which brings me to my next point. Not enough research has been done on cannibalism, I feel. We don't know how well our digestive system could handle human flesh. We also don't know the psychological implications of cannibalism. Hopefully we'll never have to know, but it's better to have knowledge and not need it than need it and not have it.
Suggested reading: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
A wind swept valley
That no one has ever seen
Amounts to nothing
That no one has ever seen
Amounts to nothing
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You should write about something happy to cleanse your soul.
GOOD LUCK TO ME ON MY EXAM.
Good night!
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