Future Daze

Experts would like us to know that by the year 2050, our planet could be "unrecognizable." First of all, this is something that experts have been saying since the invention of experts. Whether they would like us to shiver with the anticipation of all the grand and glorious technology and additional labor-saving devices, or cower in fear of life on a burned-out cinder, these experts would like us to imagine a world where their vision holds sway. This one happens to be more of the latter, citing the global population which will reach seven billion this year and will most likely top nine billion by their target: 2050.
The problem with a lot of these dire prognostications is that they fall into a bin with those made by Aztecs, Nostradamus and Al Gore. These scientists want us to take seriously the depletion of resources and the strain on our already overburdened food supplies. And here I thought Chuck Heston had taken care of all that. Or maybe that was the future in which super-intelligent apes had taken over the back lot of Twentieth Century Fox. It's really hard to know just exactly what to fear.
Like Charles Dickens before them, thinkers at the American Association for the Advancement of Science want us to know that what they predict is only one possible future. Their bottom line is family planning. If I may be so bold, I would like to suggest that we start working on the next phase of human evolution: more cubic folks for ease of stacking.