As we humans continue to expand...more than 6.5 billion of us on earth today...to our anticipated 10 billion by the year 2060 we continue to use resources way outside of the projected deletion rate. And as we continue to pack ourselves in around rivers and on coasts...we are eliminating the food stocks that only decades ago seemed to abound!
Edward O. Wilson…Perhaps Americas's finest Biologist of this century has said in comments on biodiversity and sustainability...
“A civilization able to envision God and to embark on the colonization of space will surely find the way to save the integrity of this planet and the magnificent life it harbors.”
He is hopeful that we can stop killing all life and move to make the earth sustain...if not renew...its habitats and food sources for all living things.
But can we? If industry here in the US and abroad are working to grow...tearing down forests, eliminating wetlands...destroying natural resources ...even those that were thought to be recoverable... and creating deserts out of our grasslands... If that is who we continue to be, how will we be able to feed half again as many people on the earth as there are today?
It is time that we stop! Time that we stop and make dramatic change to ensure we can survive our "Humanity" without loosing our way. It will take planning...it will take committment, and it will take both trust and truth if we are going to make it.
I wish us luck.
