Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for September 20, 2017

“No returns, no refunds, no user-repairable parts. Keep fingers away from moving surfaces. May contain choking hazards for small children under 5, and anyone that tries to breath the air. Do not dry clean. Hand-wash only.”

It was only good for a billion years anyway.

Just order another Earth on e-bay.

He left out “Don’t put greedy idiots in charge”

The box Earth would have come in would have a volume of slightly less than 500 billion cubic miles. And Brewster finds a 8.5″ × 11″ piece of paper in all that.

Whoops! Should have read the instructions.

And after all that, we didn’t even dispose of the packing material properly.

Is there any form of fuel that isn’t carbon based? Wood, vegetable oil, tallow, alcohol… those are all carbon based.

Four billion? Even that number of humans is unsustainable without agriculture, industry, and a level of hunting that would drive some species to extinction. The paper probably said something more like 100 million.

We earthlings violated the Amazon Prime Directive centuries ago.

Rickard’s a neo-Malthusian. You go, man!

With the rise of nationalism and its partner, authoritarianism, on the rise across the globe – even among nuclear armed nations – i think this overpopulation problem will take care of itself soon enough.