A plague...

I was looking at some figures about the world's population recently. It is growing. What I did not realize before, is the following. A person of my father's generation (born in 1930) has seen the population in the world grow from about 2 billion to 6 billion in 1999 and, if he is still around, will see the 7th billion human being in 2011. So in one life time, the world population has increased by app. 350%!!!

Imagine now that the population of bugs (say cockroaches) in your house grows with that rate of increase within the life time of a single cockroach. Say a roach on average lives one year... You'd have a plague on your hands.

And that is what we are in essence: a plague; a terrible, terrible plague!