Fifty-one years ago I was studying the projections of life on this planet. The two major areas used for the basis of projections for the future were global warming and the population growth. All other projected problems were caused by those two subjects.

            Today it is called climate change to make people consider the increase in temperature involves more than just a warming thermometer. It involves more violent storms, changes in rainfall patterns, ecology changes, melting glaciers, dramatic rise in the ocean level, and other changes. Little data in which to devise computer programs was available. Since then, we have data from historic records, living and fossilized tree rings, and millions of years old sediments. All the now data just fine-tunes what I studied. Florida and most coastal cities will be under water in a century or two.

            When we studied population growth the world had about three billion people. The projection at the time was seven billion by 2000, nine by 2050, and twelve by 2100. Current projections are unchanged. At the time Mao had a one-child rule. Today China announced a three child policy. China may have about 1.5 billion of ageing people. Ageing is the problem everywhere. As living conditions, medicine, and food improve people live longer and increase the population. To produce more items to sell to the increased population, younger people are needed. Economies are based on people continuing to buy stuff making it imperative to get people to produce more kids. Those kids will make more but buy more causing more workers to be needed to sell to the aging population.

            More population and fewer resources on less land is our future.