When so many humans are doing bad karma today how is the human population increasing?

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so does the soul divide? now when there is so much bad karma, why are there more humans not more animals see, the soul doesn’t divide the soul is it cannot be it cannot be cartoonized the soul is what it is, now as far as the population explosion that we talk about in today’s world see nobody has done a census of all species in the world to say whether their population has gone down or come up now who has done a census of all the grass who has done a census of all the mosquitoes who has done a census of all the germs there are so many germs which HIV for example which we don’t know whether it existed in the past AIDS is a recent disease germ associated with that is also a disease so there are so many species that for us to observe only one species within that for one phase of time and to say that there is an increase of population here and there is a decrease of that is actually very limited observation say there is a classroom and in that classroom there are students of say 5th grade all of them and say it’s a so some extraterrestrial being comes to the earth to reconnaissance of the earth and they come into the classroom and they sit shining behind hovering in space looking and they are in that classroom for one hour and then they go back and then they report that earth is filled with people of 10 years age these observed one place on the vast earth and only that also for one short time so if we consider the Vedic world view the present age when we started counting population from the perspective of the Vedic time span is very very small and life is not the monopoly of the earth in the Vedic world view there are different forms of life which exist in different places so it’s a very relative perspective you see there is no need to absolutize it secondly, specifically yes, people are performing adharmic activities and those who perform adharmic activities will get the consequences but the way concepts of adharma come are also complicated so sometimes the miseries of mortal existence the reactions to bad karma can also come through population exclusion you know people suffer there are so many people and then there is scarcity of resources then the sheer number of people and the scarcity and the limitedness of resources that itself causes collision that itself causes misery so the population explosion could also be a way in which karmic reactions can be delivered because the people who are born in that increased population demographic they have to struggle more for meeting their needs so Krishna says in the Bhagavad Gita that the way in which karma works is incomplete it is not so easy to decipher so we understand the principle that the soul is eternal and depending on particular circumstances the certain species may be more at particular times that also is within the principle of karma itself does it answer your question?