it’s all about “vertical economic growth”

for this to happen you need:

-New discoveries
-More resources (more energy, more land, materials, workers, more food, etc.)
-More consumers (increase in the population without stop)
-New problems (aka “opportunities”…)
-Rinse and repeat

Imperialism didn’t work, communism didn’t work, capitalism is the exact opposite and seems to be the less bad (but not sustainable in the long run…)

i hope the future can find some type of middle ground. But this will only happen when people start cooperating instead of blindly competing and/or stealing from each other.

before human greed, for millions of years nature had a perfect cycle and 1 world was more than enough for all creatures to live in…

but i would really like those “6 percent” that literally own the world to really give back

if only 1 of those gave up half their fortune, i wonder how many would benefit…

Also what you said about “giving back”, I’ve had that bug big-time for the last few years… I try and do little things, donations, leave my change with the cashier incase other people need it and more recently, personal donations to people I know need it… nothing big, just trying to spread a little joy.

Ultimately I don’t think handing anyone a giant lump sum of money would help them, but some kindness here and there I think does wonders.

videos like this make you think if we’re really heading in the right direction.

the number of people that live with 1 dollar or less a day is insane and plain depressing.

oh and just by owning a home am richer than most people in this world…

i really Thank God for how lucky i am i have a roof, food on the table, a vehicle, phone, internet, cable, etc. i always thought it was the opposite and took everything i archived for granted.

i really feel the need to give back and help somehow.

capitalism/globalization seems to be making the rich, richer and the poor… dead?

Are humans really *that* destructive that we have to spend 1000x more on military than we do on development? Or is it just that military spending is so much more profitable so that top 6% can continue to hold 75-80% of the world’s wealth?

Probably the latter… and that makes me sad.

also, the North pole and south are not the same. The south pole (Antarctica) should not melt, but yes, there have been an increase in the temperature.

Antarctica is like 20% land and 80% ice. The north pole is like 70% land.

oh and hurricane season now starts earlier and ends later.

in the next 50 years we’ll see the following:

-More deserts
-less food
-more poverty
-about 10 billion human beings (or more)
-More level 5 hurricanes
-more tornados
-20% of plants and animals extincted
-More plagues and diseases
-more crime…

that’s the world where our kids and grandkids will live in if we don’t do anything now.

i don’t know if you seen this video of the miniature earth (it’s enlightening…)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvTFKpIaQhM&feature=related

I can’t imagine the North Pole getting warm enough to melt… when you see movies of it or the South Pole it seems unholy-cold…

this will be the first summer where it will melt almost completely (in the winter it goes back to normal)

it’s already affecting the polar bears, many will die of hunger (specially cubs) in the winter this year. They will have less time to hunt and prepare.

gladly is only a small part that melts, happens every year, but now is worse every time.