Hi, my name is Georgie and I’m a dog with a blog.

As we approach the summer solstice of 2010 I thought I should start a blog as a countdown to the end of the world.  Ok, the world is not really going to end, but is surely going to change.  Humans have so overpopulated the world that their food and energy needs are soon to surpass the capabilities of the planet. Do you know there are 15 humans for every dog on the planet?  Talk about a species that is badly in need of population control.

So how does the world change?  Well, that is a complicated question and will take days to answer.  But the overview is that the Human population is growing out of control which will lead the humans fighting over resources like food, water, and energy.  A second part of the problem is the pollution of the planet and the excessive use on non-renewable resources like gas, oil, coal, and uranium.  As humans continue to expand the use of non-renewable resources they will begin to run out, the price will rise and only the rich will be able to afford the “good life”.  Finally, global pollution will cause a loss of plant and animal diversity, the collapse of food production ecosystems.

An example of this would be the Atlantic cod, the pacific salmon and the blue fin tuna.  Ok, I love sushi, but I feel guilty eating tuna sushi because the population of blue fin has already dropped by 90 % in many areas of the oceans.

In summary, the world ends because one species cannot control its population, and so is using up all the resources on the planet and in the process polluting the ecosystem so badly that it will take thousands of years for the ecosystem to come back into balance after people have destroyed themselves.

Dogs can’t change the coming disaster as much as we would like to make things better for our humans.  What can one dog do?   Well, just because dogs are not part of the problem doesn’t mean that we can’t be part of the solution.

Now, a bit about me.  I am a 4 year old Beagle, and I work in a research lab working on renewable, carbon neutral non toxic bio-fuels to replace coal. My primary duties are to work on the computer running data analysis.  I dropped out of grad school because I realized with a 14 yr lifespan, I better get out there and start doing rather than enjoying the academic life.   In university they accept you for who you are and not what you look like.  Fortunately, I found a research lab to work in that is as accepting as university.   I could tell you stories of having prospective employers wanting to hire me from my resume and then taking one look at me and saying we would never hire a beagle, no matter how smart you are.

Ok, enough for now, I’m going for a walk with my sister Nikki.