For over a billion years, Nature's survival adaptations generated an increasingly abundant life system on Earth. Then the natural adaptations eventually produced our human species, and we developed the adaptation of civilization to help us survive. But the inherent contradiction with civilization is that it's the only survival adaptation that has to restrict survival instinct in order to exist. Increasing laws, regulations, technological development, population growth, and social control repress life-generating instinctive function. We try to compensate for our reduced life by increasing consumption of Earth's life system, and increasing our procreation.

If we look back in history just a dozen lifetimes ago, there were only 500 million people on Earth and life was still very abundant. Herds of animals and flocks of birds were so prolific they would stretch far beyond the horizons. The oceans were teeming with sea life, and vast forests were abundant with wildlife.

60 years ago there were 3 billion people on Earth, and now there are 8 billion people compulsively consuming and polluting Earth's finite resources at an accelerating rate. Every day we cut down or burn down 100 thousand acres of forest. Every day we burn up into the atmosphere 80 million barrels of oil, 20 million tons of coal, and over a billion cubic meters of methane gas. Every day we consume 100 thousand tons of fish, and in exchange we have dumped so much garbage in the oceans that floating masses cover thousands of square miles. Half the coral reefs are gone, half the rainforests are gone, and half the world's vertebrate animals are gone.