DeeKnow’s Grotto

The topic of planetary over-population came up round the tea-room committee table a couple of weeks back with a short, lively but largely inconclusive debate ensuing.

I seized the opportunity during the conversation to proffer my own personal solution to the problem, if there actually is one. Although it didn't receive the positive feedback I expected from my fellow coffee-sipping philosophers, I still stand firmly by the concept.

I suggest that rather than force a global lifestyle adjustment to reduce of rate of consumption of natural resources, that we simply genetically engineer ourselves to be smaller over the next few centuries. Each generation will get progressively diminutive, if our children can be say 10% smaller than us, and theirs the same, before we know it we'll be little people about a foot high taking up less room, eating less, and driving smaller cars.

Sure we'll have some weird family photos for the next few generations, and there's gonna need to be some pretty serious international co-operation required, and we'll have to deal with predatory critters like cats, birds which will all of a sudden seem to be much more menacing, but the sooner we get started the better.

I'm picking the Irish will be right behind this, what with their connection with the little-people, so I reckon I'll start my campaign over there. If I can convince them drinking will be a little cheaper as an added bonus then I'll be off to a flying start.

11:20:20 PM