For the Lesser Creatures might inherit the Earth again ?

The human population now is believed to have crossed the 7 billion mark.....officially it's 6.6 billion as of September 2007.

Now, what does it basically translate to ?

It means

• More and more contribution to the phenomenon of Global Warming. Our species has just recently woken up to this phenomenon, and it's one of the most fashionable topics of discussion (though fashion parades do also contribute to the same phenomena)......Setting off a chain-reaction which already IMHO has spun out of our control. It's elementary: we have still not been able to discover all the sub-atomic particles, that is the components of a single atom. Can we stop Global Warming ? It's a phenomena involving millions of interacting parameters........
  
• Increasing conflicts directly attributable to fights for natural resources. Lest we forget, wars have been fought for water & other resources. Indirectly, of course....conflicts will increase due to clash of interests, or call it the Clash of Civilizations.
• This humongous "human biomass" (which is, the total mass weight of human beings) is going to destroy the environment to a large degree. Beautiful keystone predators like the tiger, snow leopard, polar bears will be lost.

There could be many more points, but what's the point?

Species will be lost........but since you are a mammal....kindly take a look at our lesser mammals.....your wise cat purring contentedly on that blanket ; the scared, angry Siberian Tiger plodding and stalking through a 30 miles to hunt for its prey ; the wolves baying in that moonlit night......AND THEN TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT YOU.

Do you see the difference ?

The other lesser mammals were the ugly hairy creatures, and we are the hairless ones.

Global Warming....excess ultraviolet radiation.....a nuclear holocaust.....an Ice Age.

Who will survive ?

I find it funny to see some sci-fi films depicting a futuristic, dystopian society devoid of our lesser creatures and showing some weird mutant humans.......

Believe my story, it's those lesser creatures that will eventually survive.

A chilling reminder : the tsunami struck on this day , Boxer's Day. Hundreds of thousands of humans perished....a tragedy beyond compare.

But one of the most amazing facts was :

There were so many of those non-human lesser creatures on those beaches, on the mangrove forests.....ALMOST ALL SURVIVED.

It puzzled a lot of scientists......there were lots of theories.....some did come at parts of the Truth : they could feel the vibration, we humans couldn't, with all our superior cranial capacity.

But, I guess it was their sixth sense...... (BTW, we humans have almost lost our sense of smell ....)

Anyway, on that day......the lesser creatures survived.

We humans did not.