What is the World Coming To?
From space, Earth is a beautiful place. Makes you glad you're already here, right? And when you visit places of beauty like mountains, beaches, forests, and lakes you take a deep breath and try to breathe in that eneffable something that you always feel when you're there. Just to take a little bit of it back with you when you inevitably have to return to your everyday, humdrum life. Where you live, its not so beautiful. The air is not so fresh and clean. Well, at least for many of us. There are a lucky few. But the world as a whole is still quite an amazing place. And yet we humbly must admit that it is only a small oasis in the vast desert of space where cold, hostile emptiness reigns supreme. Yet don't we all feel a tugging to sail that emptiness and see what else is out there? We can't even wait for our technology to catch up and make that dream come true. We keep building bigger and bigger telescopes to try and cheat and see what's there from here. Judging from the way things stand on Earth today, I would say we are not ready to go out there. How could we possibly offer our selves up in friendship to what ever kind of life we might find elsewhere in the galaxy when we can't even befriend our neighbors right here on Earth? When all men can sit down together in peace and plan our adventure outward, then we will be ready to make the trip. Until that day, our number one priority should be to get our own house in order. The world is our cradle, and we should learn to take care of it. What a great sadness it would be if we had to leave it before we were ready because we had rendered it no longer livable. Or worse, never got a chance to leave at all.
With that said, how long can Mother Earth sustain an ever increasing human population? A thousand years, a hundred, a few more decades, or have we already reached the tipping point? Over 25,000 people die from hunger every day. I think the tipping point was reached some time ago, don't you? So as far as I'm concerned, I think its well past time for us to beat our weapons into plow shears. I hear all these theories that the so called illuminati have a plan to get rid of most of us as their way of solving the problem. And the constant beating of the war drums is just one part of that pogrom. Is that the best we can do? The only solution great minds can come up with? I hope not. My greatest fear is that either Mother Earth will turn on us or human insanity will before we put our heads together and figure this thing out. So where do we start? Do we wait for someone else to get the ball rolling? Or should we start making that effort here and now, just you and I? The problem is obvious. The sollution is not. Got any ideas? Lets hear them. There's a place below called "Comments" where we can at least nudge the ball and see if we can make it roll. So how about it?
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