Demography is a strange mistress; the numbers are immutable, yet somehow miss the point. In 1945, the United States defeated Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan with 139 million people. In 1992, the United States defeated the Soviet Union with a population of 236 million. In 2015, the United States has a population of 316 million people, both legal and illegal, and it cannot defeat anyone. Historically, the United States has picked a bad time to have an inept, burgeoning population, for 2015 is at the cusp of dystopia. Scientist agree that the world is living in the Anthropocene Era, an era marked by the Earth being forced into deterioration by the activities of Mankind, including over population. “T he beginning of the so-called “anthropocene” or human epoch is a hotly debated topic in geology, with suggestions varying widely from the start of farming about 10,000 years ago to the explosion of the first atomic bomb in 1945. However, two scientists have made a ca