Happy Birthday Earth!!!
I’m trying to be optimistic here, but today, on celebrating Earth Day, I can’t help but think about the myriad of problems we face on our abused overpopulated planet. We look around today and see rising oil prices caused by increased demand on a limited supply that will only shrink over time. We see the increased pollution problems that countries like China and India face everyday, caused by the massive growth of their populations. Extreme poverty and hunger abates many parts of Africa, and yet here in the US we continue on with our lives unburdened and not worried about any of this.
I feel guilty.
I just want to bring attention to an excellent article called The Problem of Growth, that tackles many of these issues and highlights the one major problem.
We live on a beautiful planet, with limited resources and we simply cannot keep growing and wasting our resources forever. We need to face the truth and make tough decisions for the future of our children and the future of the human race, or else we wont be here to celebrate many more Earth Days in the future.