When I was born, in 1948, population of the world was 2,555,948,654 and the USA had 146,631,302 people. Today, sixty years later, there are 6,667,926,022 people crawling around on this ball of dirt we call Earth. Here in the good old US of A we number 304,066,273 people of various genders, races and ages.
In 1968 Paul Ehrlich and others published a book titled, ‘The Population Bomb”. This book shouted out the dangers of an ever shorting double time for world population and the terrible effects this over population would bring. They especially targeted the first world countries, like the US, for the amount of world resources consumed.
Dr Ehrlich’s predictions were twenty years off. He predicted many of the world problems we are seeing today to come to a head in the 1980’s.
That they waited in the wings this long has more to do with denial than Man’s cleverness .
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are loose upon the world. Brought forth by the sheer number of humans scrambling for an ever decreasing supply of finite resources. War, Famine, Disease and Death ride forth on the wings of jet air craft.
It became clear over 30 years ago that if we as a species did not do something about our population growth, nature would. We have reached a tipping point. There are too many of us and our activities and machines have sped up the natural cycle of climate change. As this change increases, more and more of us will be impacted.
Now is the time to prepare and join together as family, clan, tribe and community in combining our resources, wisdom and energy in creating systems and life styles that are connected to the natural world. It’s going to be a wild and crazy ride into this new century.
Hold onto your hat.
Blessings
Rev T.