Thre Trillion Dollar Question - Will Humanity Be Wise Enough To Save Itself?

It was 1970, my year of graduation. I recall one of the year's big events in Rockford Illinois was a twenty-five mile Walk For Hunger. A walk to raise money to help feed folks who were suffering from poverty and malnutrition. That year the world population was 3.862 billion. Today it stands at 7.795 billion, an increse of 201.838% in a relative very short 50 year period.

One must ask themselves, is the human race racing to extinction. The result of mass famine and the bloody wars and destruction that will inevitably follow? All driven by ignorance, greed, and a massive lack opf compassion for otyher sentient beings on the planet.

I recall 1969 and 1970. The youthful idealism of the Woodstock generation  and the anti-war protests against the United States illlegitimate presence in a country we had absolutely no business being in in the first place. Looking at the 53 years since those heady days of  youthful idealism it is clear that this nation and its governments haven't learned a damned thing apparently. Generally, neither have many of the other governments of the world. Apparently.

The planet and its human inhabitants face many potentially life threatening circumstances. Certainly this is so when they are considered with a broader all encompaaaing view. Let's list them, over population, desertification of agricultural lands, climate change, devestatiing wildfires, melting ice caps, increasing extinction of wildlife, regional wars, famine, the growing imbalance in the Marine ecosystem, and more. Perhaps you can name a few?

The truth of the matter is this, all of these potentially life threatening situations are intimately interconnected. Each affecting the other. IOW unless the PEOPLE of the world  DEMAND positive actiona to mitigate these growing dangers from their respective governments and religious traditions this planet may very well become unihabital in a few short generations.

If the peoples of the planet fail to rise to the challenges of saving humanity on thisbeautiful planet of ours the reasons will be these, ignorance, greed, and a complete lack of compassion.

Food For Thought:

“I discovered that it is necessary, absolutely necessary, to believe in nothing. That is, we have to believe in something which has no form and no color--something which exists before all forms and colors appear... No matter what god or doctrine you believe in, if you become attached to it, your belief will be based more or less on a self-centered idea.”

― Shunryu Suzuki