The Population, It is A-Poppin'

            Frankly, I was skeptical of the population ticker meter that Dr. Morris put up during Thursday’s class. In the span of our 80 minute class, several thousand people were born, adding to the nearly 7 billion humans already here. But not once did I see that number go down due to a death. You always hear these statistics that so many women an hour die from breast cancer or this many people will die from a drunk driving accident today. So how is that factoring into the population ticker meter? That’s not to say I disbelieve the alarming overpopulation problem. I’m well aware of that fact.

            As a bit if irony, my boyfriend and his cousin were just discussing the population not two days previous. The cousin claimed that Earth cannot support more than 20 billion people. I predict we will never reach that point. The closer proximity we’ll be forced to live, the more rapidly whole hosts of people will die, balancing out and reducing that number. Just because it was 1918 doesn’t mean that a new flu pandemic won’t occur again, soon, and wipe our more people than ever.

            Which got me discussing babies with my boyfriend. His older brother is adopted. His parents didn’t think they could have kids so they adopted. My boyfriend was a surprise accident baby. It frustrates me that it seems so many people adopt only because they can’t have kids. It seems so few adopt simply because they want to spread their love to a life already in existence. The older I get, the more I want to adopt kids. Three of my friends don’t want any kids of their own, and we’ve discussed adoption together. My boyfriend, oddly enough, seems opposed to solely adopting. He wants a child genetically belonging to him. He’s not opposed to adoption, so long as he has one of his “own” kids too. Which I told him we may do. I’m still shaky on the whole squeezing out kids topic. But I told him I want to adopt. This then begs the question if he and I will ever have enough money to adopt. It’s foolish that adoption is so expensive! With so many people already out there waiting for homes, why add in the hurdle of affordability? Why is so much of everything ruled by the dollar? All we want to do is do our part in this population crisis and give a child or two a good home.

I throw my hands up, this is all so ridiculous.