Most top rank experts with good scientific knowledge to share appear not to have found adequate ways of communicating to the family of humanity what people somehow need to hear, see and understand: the rapacious dissipation of Earth's limited resources, the relentless degradation of the planet's environment, and the approaching destruction of the Earth as a fit place for human habitation by the children, when taken together, appear to be proceeding at breakneck speed toward the precipitation of a catastrophic ecological wreckage of some sort unless, of course, the 'Engineers' of the world's global political economy continue to speed headlong toward the monolithic 'wall' called "unsustainability" at which point the runaway economy crashes before Earth's ecology is collapsed.

Who knows, perhaps new leadership and a new direction such as President Barack Obama is providing will make it possible for us to realistically and hopefully hold onto the expectation that behavioral changes in the direction of sustainable production, healthful per-capita consumption, and self-regulated propagation of human numbers are in the offing.....changes that save both the economy and the Earth for the children.

Steven Earl Salmony

AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population, established 2001

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