This book discusses the ongoing and future decline in the human species. The circumstances of the decline are generally due to well-meant motives to improve the human condition. They will provide short term benefits but will result in major long term difficulties and an overall decline of the human species. Topics discussed include: The Rise of Man, Genetic Disasters, Birth Defects, Natural Changes in Human Genes, Genetic Selection for the Least Fittest, Disease/War Driven Genetic Decline, Hybrid Human-Animal Species, Social Implications of Hybrids, Religious Implications of Hybrids, Super-Human Species - Obsoleting Man, Overpopulation Constraints, Restraints on Population Growth, Achieving a Standard of Living Comparable to the United States, Population Reduction, Pollution Effects, Pollution Today and Projected for Tomorrow, Genetic Effects of Pollution, Reducing Pollution, Is Pollution Inevitable?, Global Warming, Global Temperatures over the Millenniums prior to 10,000 BC, Global Warming Today and Tomorrow, Desertification, World Deserts Today, Growth of World Deserts, Arid Earth?, Reversing Desertification, Poverty, Population and Morality, Poverty Today in Underdeveloped Countries, Poverty in Developed Countries, Political Impact of Poverty, Impact of Poverty on Population Growth, Impact of Poverty on Public Morality, Rising Violence, Violence in the Recent Past, Current Levels of Violence, Social and Political Impact of Violence, Epidemics, Past Epidemics, Epidemics Today, Growth in Epidemic Potential with Increasing Population, Epidemics as a Method of -Culling- the Human Species, Wars, War's Effect on Population, War in the Future, Nuclear Wars are Likely, World Leadership Failure, Reduction of the Population to -Cattle-, Towards a Superior Human Species?, Natural Genetic Improvements, Engineered Genetic Improvements, Cybernetic Hybrids of, and Alternatives to, Man, and What of Those Left Behind? A provocative view of Man and his future!