Are you a good ancestor?

     "Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors."     Jonas Salk

     What will you answer when your grown grandchildren ask you what you did to prevent the crises of global warming and world starvation?  Have you thought about it?  Will you be able to answer honestly that you did something? 
     In this country we grow our food, live, and eat unsustainably.  Fossil fuels and water supplies are finite, but you'd never know it to observe how we waste them.  The world population by 2050 is estimated to increase to 7.5 to 10.5 billion people.  How will we feed them all?

 Here are what people wiser than me have said:

     "Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances of survival for life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."     Albert Einstein

     "In our every deliberation we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations."     Iroquois Confederacy Maxim

     "We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children."  Native American Proverb

     "I have no doubt that it is the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as sure as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized."     Henry David Thoreau

     "The time will come when men such as I will look on the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men."  Leonardo da Vinci

     "Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution.  Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages."  Thomas Alva Edison

     According to Stanislaw Lec, "Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty."  Will you be one of those snowflakes in the upcoming avalanche?  Thomas Paine said:  "Lead, follow, or get out of the way."  I am asking you to lead; if you are unable to lead, then follow the ideals of the wise people above; and failing that, at least get out of the way.
     Today, look in the eyes of your children and grandchildren, consider their lives and the lives of their children and grandchildren.  Every day make your choices based on the effects they will have on the survival of the next seven generations.  Together we can make a difference.