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Population

Well... I'm not particularly well-prepared for today topic. Really. In fact, I just read the news last week about Thailand's population growth rate may reach 'zero' by year 2015. The news made me think...gee...would the cause of human extinction be infertility?

Y'know. I've heard so much from friends and acquaintances about how hard people get pregnant these days. Good friends of mine had tried for so many years to finally get pregnant. And I heard that it's harder for a couple in developed countries to have a baby.

Anyway, I checked the trends and forecasts from Wikipedia. Here they are:


My hypothesis is that these people are too stressful, particularly because of work and /or competition. My crazy imagination is that, if world peace is achieved and there's no poverty, the world population will eventually come to a point of decline.

Maybe human won't kill each other to death with wars or nuclear.
Maybe human won't be eliminated from this world through a very serious and deadly disease.
Maybe the inability to reproduce is the thing...and we will become extinct no matter how.
And, maybe that's just the way how nature works.

[Note: A lot more on Doomsday argument from Wikipedia - a much richer and more thought out ideas]

{updated: August 1, 2006}
Yai, thanks for the comment na. I hope it's ok to put your comment here...

Premise #1: if world peace is achieved and
Premise #2: If there's no poverty

The conclusion was surely drawn from a very crazy imagination : )

I don't think it's the inability to reproduce per se...
I mean we're not genetically altered to be incompetent you know what I mean?
but it's the life-style choice or (not so much of a choice for some)

BUT the point is...
It all happened before (but dued to something else)
If we look at the number of the baby-boomers today, we'll see a pattern.
Onces the population goes down significantly, people will start to do something.

Some countries even paid you if you reproduced right?

love to talk more but gotta go out now...will come back to check your blog again later na.

And I like to add something, not really a response to Yai's comment, but rather another view I got from a Israeli biologist-turned-HighSchool-teacher (who got a PhD in some kind of myth-literature), whom I met on the plane from Chiang Mai. (wow...that's long!)

I told him about this crazy idea, and he said it is almost impossible. From history, when a civilization is in peace and prosperity, people just reproduce! Hmm...that makes sense. In that case...it's very unlikely that human population will gradually shrink to zero. What you (anybody) think?

posted by Bikku @ 2:33 AM 3 comments

Better Busy, Better

Every time I complain through my blog, I think I have an obligation to tell everyone when I feel better. Otherwise the world would think I'm still miserable when I actually recovered.

Well... I do start to feel better now. Not that every problem resoved, but I think I've come to (to an extend) make peace with it. Actually, with myself. And I'm getting busier now with work (not sure if that's good or bad :P).

I actually considered writing on 'population growth' issue (doesn't sound like me, does it? :P), but I guess I'm keeping this one short for now ;)

posted by Bikku @ 1:45 AM 3 comments

Will...gone

Notice: Once in a while, I just complain here. And today I will do it again. And. It's gonna be about me, me, me. So it's ok if you guys skip this one <;

Now... I have a feeling that, recently, my will has been weak. A will to do anything...to work, to talk, to walk, even to write this blog. I'm still trying to find out why, though. Maybe I've been writing too much each day I don't wanna do anymore of it. Maybe.

Well, don't worry. I'm not that bad yet. I just feel that time is scarce. In fact, I feel that I have less time than others. That's odd, isn't it?

I'm just writing here and there. Ideas scattered. Not making sense. Well, just bear with me a little more if you already read up to this point.

Maybe I just need a getaway. That would probably temporarily solve it. Or a massage. Hmm...that won't do anything much.

Anyway, I don't think there's a quick fix to this. Maybe it'll just go away someday. Maybe I'll be like this forever. Maybe I'll just get used to it. Maybe...Maybe...

posted by Bikku @ 12:31 AM 5 comments

Cha-am Trip

It was a long weekend, and my uncle and his (daughter's) family visit us from China. So, we decided to bring them to the beach. My cousin's 7-year-old daughter, Tian- was in the sea for the very first time. She appeared to be very excited...and happy...to play in the sea all day.


As for me, I didn't do much...except driving around, eating, and taking photographs. Not exactly a type of my usual trip with friends. But hey...it's family business. One should contribute more or less ;)


P.S. Sorry I haven't been writing lately. My only excuse is 'work' ...but I guess the real reason is that I don't want to write 'complain' anymore (or at least for a big while). Don't really want to bring it to the sad-side :P So...I guess I'll bring it back to food & travel soon. Because philosiphy and economics are also boring and unpopular :P

posted by Bikku @ 9:46 PM 0 comments