The True End of History\ The End Of Economics?

I don't believe in God, I don't believe in karma, yet I have the intrinsic human belief that I am here for a reason and to witness something. It is on a rational level completely stupid and perhaps connected to the human need to feel our lives have some worth.

So I do wonder as I read a rather poorly written book about humanity, and in between mentally improving his annoying English, I pick up facts about man.

What is modern economics fundamentally based upon?
It is based on more people, more consumption, more more.....

Is this collapse in the financial system symptomatic of something greater. We can debate the Israel\Palestine conflict for years, but isn't it basically a problem of space. Two very different races of people who feel slighted are trying to live in very close proximity. What would have happend in prehistoric times? There would have been an all mighty fight and one tribe would have annihilated the other or one of them would have simply moved out in the great expanse of earth. We are running out of space and tension is rising.

Can we carry on producing more, when the effects devastate the world? Can population carry on increasing when we struggle to support and feed those new arrivals and deliver the standard of living expected?

We are still an Animal, we shit, we eat, we procreate. We may paint our faces, we may hide our toilet habits, have sex in private, mostly, we try to distance ourselves from the animal kingdom but we can never escape what we are. We live in cities which are largely devoid of diverse life, we may rarely venture into the wilderness and few of us could survive there yet as hard as we may try and escape it, we are still an animal.

Has this animal reached its limits?

Are we about to descend into chaos as we struggle to deliver food to the masses as the world becomes hotter and arable land decreases. I do wonder. Are we killing the goose in our need for ever more.

Politicians hang to global warming like their small stupid brains are incapable of thinking of the bigger picture, perhaps they are right as it is too scary. It is man's effect on the environment that is critical, man's requirements to consume ever more, man's need to have ever greater numbers of people on the planet.