I am so fortunate to have been born 90 years ago. When I was a kid, we didn’t have color films, TV had been invented, but they didn’t know how to broadcast it. Now we are in the midst of a climate change, and some people are killing others because of their radical religious beliefs. We are polluting the air that is so important to us because of the wonderful advances of technology. I wonder how this is possible.

We are the only creature on Earth that has developed language, and some of our ancestors learned to record and play back that noise by inventing writing and reading. No other living creature has that ability. Of course, the down side of speech is we can now tell fantastic lies. After the printing press was invented, our advances in our ability to travel, produce food and kill each other shot up. There are thousands of languages spoken in the world today. Because we can learn from our past and what happened yesterday, we have been able to watch TV, drive in big cars, prepare our food in microwave ovens and talk to someone on the other side of the Earth with a little wireless telephone.

Of course, some groups progressed faster and better than others.

When Columbus came to this side of the ocean, he found natives here that could speak but did not have a way of recording information nearly as good as those people he had left behind in Europe. And because of a goof-up in language, the people he found here are now referred to as “Indians” because he thought he had found a new way to “India.”

Today, our technology is leading us down a very dangerous path. If you live in a big city, one look at our thousands of commuters driving to work will really shock you.

The majority of those vehicles seem to be only carrying one person! Big thousand-pound cars and loads of pickup trucks use up gasoline that is being sucked up from our Earth by millions of gallons per day, (and yes, someday it will hit EMPTY) and spew clouds of carbon dioxide and nitrogen dioxide up to pollute the very air we breathe.

Of course, we could drive electric cars – but where does that electricity that charges those batteries come from? From plants burning oil and coal, helping to pollute our atmosphere with sulfur dioxide. Isn’t that great?

Then, we have our wonderful medical profession. Back in the time of 1900, most people rarely lived beyond the age of 45, according to OurWorldinData.org. Today those guys in the white outfits are saving us by the dozen, and I believe they’re causing severe overpopulation problems. I’m a perfect example. In my twenties, I had a burst appendix. Fortunately, doctors made house calls back then, and the doctor sat me next to him in his car and drove me to a hospital where they saved my life.

Now we have birth control that was unheard of hundreds of years ago. Unfortunately, India and China have been unable to regulate proper birth control practices, and now we have overpopulation growing at a frightening rate.

There are some scientists who believe that a meteor will eliminate all of our problems by killing everybody and everything on this planet. When asked, “if or when,” that could happen, the reply was, “No if, only when.” I just hope I will have passed away before that happens. If overpopulation continues to wipe out most of our food supplies, cannibalism may be the only way for mankind to survive. Of course now we have the possibility of a war very close to us. And with so many countries learning how to make nuclear bombs, our overpopulation problem may be solved in a very hideous manner.

Again, I am so fortunate to be an old geezer. I’m sure I will be gone before the rest of you have to put up with the end of everything.