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'...