Did you read the news? The human population will hit 7 billion today. We are an aging, graying group in the developed world. The country with the oldest population is Japan, with South Korea and China not far behind. The USA is pretty much holding its own.
Every minute of every day births outnumber deaths by 158. 154 of those births every minute are in the developing world.
It is easy to see the problems this presents. How are we to feed, house, and educate this burgeoning population without destroying our over-burdoned planet? How best to create a world of "shiny happy people holding hands, shiny happy people laughing" (REM)?
I have no answers except to live as sustainably as I can in my own little life....to follow the great law of the Iroquois that states that "in every deliberation, we must consider the impact on the seventh generation." If we all do this, it will make a difference.
"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop."
Mother Teresa
Looking together in the same direction.
Sea otters hold hands while they sleep so they don't drift apart.
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