We Are Sentenced To Wildly Over-Reproduce

We’ll triage on down to only those features that simply maintain human population

We can crowd out the threatened species that do not enhance our own survivability

It’s possible to squeeze out a bit more farmland by clearing those last marginal habitats

And let our madly growing numbers remain our unspoken and most basic human right

We can crowd together in sprawling unplanned slums poisoning each other’s air and water

Economies of scale blindly sliding ever more of us towards some globalized fatal brink

We can monocrop with genetically-modified and sterile seed to feed the writhing masses

Verily, all of our one true gods bless our efforts to give birth to as many children as we wish

But, deserts would not encroach, if the hillsides did not crawl with firewood gatherers

Global warming would not threaten us without 8 billion immortal souls burning fossil fuels

If so many did not desire tigers, tuna and ivory it would reduce their profitability

But we are condemned to fruitfulness and sentenced to wildly over-reproduce

A few toxic pollution hot spots would not so endanger a vastly smaller population

Without so many customers, we would not have to build our meat like automobiles

Our bread need not be forged in factories and delivered in giant, dirty semi trucks

But our corporate masters demand hordes of wage slaves and a vast consumer market

Third world children would not grow up assembling luxuries they can never hope to enjoy

Maybe we could even give each and every one of our fewer children special attention

Smaller towns and villages might reduce the awful crimes bred of urban anonymity

But which fascist racist will you permit to dictate how many children you are allowed?

With far fewer consumers, perhaps resource wars would not be so wholly obligatory

Increasing numbers lead unsustainably to food pills and cardboard homes for most

A smaller human footprint would reduce our clumsy collateral environmental damage

But only the butchers and the sadists even consider over-population a social problem

Note well how Petri dish microbes increase wildly only to then crash to tiny levels

See how our vast numbers consume even renewables at non-renewable rates

Calculate our ever-increasing population’s dependence on irreplaceable resources

Yet the fruit of His living word decreases directly with the ¾ of a million new souls born every day

Our very numbers allow politicians to dangle false choices between family and habitat

We might even leave more than debts to the future if fewer of us were consuming right now

With more for fewer, the hopelessness that feeds fundamentalism might even just disappear

But, we cannot go there for fear of losing our precious humanity and our everlasting souls

There is not one global problem a smaller population would not help us to alleviate

Perhaps less than 90% of those living would not have to subsist on a dollar a day

Of course, any and all population control is simply a form of totalitarian, atheistic genocide

Though scientists say our numbers will stabilize soon, we are already unsustainably far too many