{"id":52734,"date":"2020-04-23T15:33:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T20:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=52734"},"modified":"2020-04-23T15:33:03","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T20:33:03","slug":"overpopulation-natures-revenge-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=52734","title":{"rendered":"Overpopulation, Nature\u2019s Revenge, &#038; Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Pandemic.png\" alt=\"Pandemic\"\/><figcaption>&nbsp;Photograph by 15734951 (Pixabay)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permaculturenews.org\/2020\/04\/23\/overpopulation-natures-revenge-pandemic\/\">Overpopulation, Nature\u2019s Revenge, &amp; Pandemic<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Don\u2019t Dismiss the Design Option<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Has the planet simply had enough of people? Are there are too many of us, and this pandemic is the paramount example? It\u2019s easy to let our minds meander this way, but we have likely had more serious pandemics (Let\u2019s see this one reach its conclusion before we declare that). In just gross number of deaths, and certainly in percentage of population infected and lost, there are similar, perhaps even more frightening, catastrophes littered through our history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Spanish Flu happened in 1918, infected approximately 500 million people with an estimated 50 million deaths. The world population was a little under two billion, roughly a quarter of where it stands today. Humanity decreased by 10%<\/li><li>The Black Death, or the second coming of the Bubonic Plague, is estimated to have accounted for 75 million deaths in the 1300s, when the population was less than half a billion. That\u2019s less than one-tenth of today\u2019s population.<\/li><li>Eight hundred years prior to The Black Death, in the 500s, The Justinian Plague, is believed to have taken 50 million, just over a quarter of the planet\u2019s population at the time. That was less than 2.5 percent of the current population.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To avoid\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/middle-ages\/pandemics-timeline\" target=\"_blank\">belabouring the point further<\/a>, pandemics are certainly tied to big numbers of people, in particular tightly packed populations, but to sum them up as a result of overpopulation alone is just not the case. We are 1500 years removed (and 7.6 billion people amplified) from the Justinian Plague, which was 1000 years after the first recorded plague in Athens during the Peloponnesian War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overpopulation, Nature\u2019s Revenge, &amp; Pandemic Don\u2019t Dismiss the Design Option Has the planet simply had enough of people? Are there are too many of us, and this pandemic is the paramount example? It\u2019s easy to let our minds meander this way, but we have likely had more serious pandemics (Let\u2019s see this one reach its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[11500,606,9358,855],"class_list":["post-52734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-jonathon-engels","tag-overpopulation","tag-permaculture-research-institute","tag-viral-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52735,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52734\/revisions\/52735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}