2 Billion Seconds

Sometime this past spring I reached a milestone: I have now been alive for over 2 billion seconds (no, I didn't count...). A billion is a LOT, a thousand million, which of course, is a thousand thousand, get the pattern (many people we elect to office don't know the pattern which may be why we are $20 trillion in debt - that's over $61,500. apiece for all 325 million Americans...). When I was born in late 1954 there were about 2.67 billion humans on Earth, an estimate from the UN pop clock today is a little over 7.6 billion; the human population has almost tripled in my 63+ year lifetime. The population site claims the growth is slowing but still predicts 10 or 11 billion by 2050ish. Let's just say it, that's too many humans to live like Americans do (and that's what many people would like).
Thomas Malthus warned us about population 200 years ago, 50 years ago Paul Ehrlich warned us again with The Population Bomb (he has pretty much admitted it's too late and humans are done...he's a biologist) and Isaac Asimov warned this young college student in the 1970's that the issues of the future would all be because of population pressures - I've seen nothing to refute him in the 45 years since. The illegal immigration from the south (and north) into the US, the waves of people fleeing Africa and the Middle East are all due to poorly planned parenting - if YOU can't take care of a kid, don't have one, much less two or six or ten.
And, we have a bunch of bozos in charge (and that is a very loose use of the term in charge...) want to cut access to contraception, in most any form. Those same hypocrites wave their holier than thou Jesus banner of false morality BUT don't offer any help to the people having the kids they can't care for; thanks, Jesus would be so proud. Until we realize that the root issue (patriarchal religious extremism) drives the anti-contraception forces which is causing the population growth which is causing ALL the other issues currently endangering human survival on Earth. And, you can't fix an ailing plant trimming the leaves when the roots are in poisoned soil. Root causes are being ignored.  Global warming and sea level rise, storm/drought intensity, water quality, air quality, food quality, deforestation, plastic (and other) trash, overfishing, extraction industry pollution, soil degradation, space junk; the list could go on and on but doesn't matter. The issue is too many humans on the planet and the only way to deal with it is give women contraception so they can plan(with a father)  to have none or one or two great kids. There are other things we can do as individuals to help human (and other) life on Earth but until we get this: PLAN PARENTHOOD - HAVE NONE OR ONE OR TWO GREAT KIDS, nothing else matters.
There's my take on the planet, Today On Earth. Time to find a dog and go for a walk, hope you dodge the raindrops and get out, too.