Living on Borrowed Time


by Ernie Fitzpatrick - Date: 2008-08-23 - Word Count: 340 Share This!

At the current rate of population growth and how we are literally burning up and using up our natural resources, just how long do you think we can continue to exist? Earth is our home and there's no place else that we can go, soon enough, to escape the ticking time bomb that we're building. Can we live without trees? If we don't change how we're living we'll find out soon enough.  

For those that think they can measure such things, the current rate of deforestation, will leave us treeless in 2-3 decades.

It's not just the trees, nor the declining population of bees, but the whole delicate ecosystem that's in danger. Who knows the value of the polar caps, the complex role played by the coral reefs, or the dead zones being created in our oceans. Dead zones. Is that ever a prophetic term or what?

The debate as to how much oil we have isn't nearly as important to me as to how much drinkable water we have. But that we're adding six billion tons of heat trapping carbon into the atmosphere annually, it might be good to run out of oil. Just a thought.  :-)

And then there's this little problem with food- like we're running out of it and we can't see the trees because we're in the forest. We're now beginning to hear about how Wal-Mart, Costco, and Sam's are limiting certain food stuffs. China will need something like another two hundred million tons of grain in the next 15-20 years alone. Are we really thinking about tomorrow? Maybe 2012?

We are all dying, all having one less day to live. But we could find ourselves having a larger lump of life taken way that really didn't have to happen. We can't contol as many things as we think we cn, but we can control a lot of things that we're not and it's those things that give us a longer life that we're missing sight of and forgetting. It's time to awaken and take more responsibility for the future.


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As a spiritual-futurist my commentaries and articles deal primarily with an interpretation of current events in light of macro-universal forces at play.

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