About 75 years ago Mohandas K. Gandhi took a critical look at the present structure or the society in which he lived. He saw that city life created a large number of people in poverty, and suggested self-sustaining villages in order to foster a more efficient way of living.

I look at life in this country right now, and I see disaster waiting to happen. We have built a foundation on the grocery store ideal. The problem with that is, if something ever happened to the grocery store, or the food became tainted somehow, many would starve.

Even if you have money, you are living beyond your means. We are consuming at an alarming rate and in fact it has been determined according to many ecologists, anthropologists and sociologists, that the earth can viably sustain 5.5 billion people with the current available resources.

Obviously we are closer to 7 billion people at this point. What does that mean? It means that we are quite often exploiting our environment and others in order to fill those grocery stores.

Honestly we are so reliant on our lifestyles that it is difficult to see a way out. It seems that the only thing that could shake us awake to our flawed way of living would to be a natural disaster. Hurricane Katrina pointed out our inherent weaknesses in our society.

Yet we refuse to listen. It doesn’t seem like anyone out there wants to hear the truth. The truth is, we have reached a critical mass on this planet, and if we don’t start looking at positive ways to change, we may very well end up destroying ourselves.

Eventually the virus destroys its host and must move on to another one. Unfortunately for us, we have no way of moving on to the next planet. We are the virus, but we don’t have to be. The earth is sick, our race is sick, but we can become the cure.

It seems to me that one of two things need to happen in order for us to survive. We either need to begin constructing small-scale sustainable communities and give up a large part of our current technology; or we must find a renewable, clean resource that would allow us to continue our lifestyle.

Of coarse with the latter, we would still have to take a look at our consumption, but we could curb it in such a way that we could keep some aspects of our technology, while still preventing ourselves from running out of resources.
If I had the scientific mind to do so, I would be devoting my time to inventing something that produces limitless clean energy. It is my sincerest hope, that someone out there is working on this very thing now. For those of us who are not an engineer, we must be looking at our own talents, and begin using them to make positive changes in our lives and the lives of others.

The fact is, if oil has not peaked yet, it will in the next 20 years sometime. This will create a situation of escalating problems in the way we live our lives. We need to take a critical look at our lives, and the way we are living. There may be many things that we must discard.

I think it is important to see what our technology currently causes. We are destroying the ecosystem, we are exploiting the poor and causing the suffering of countless millions, and all so we can have things like cell phone technology, and stores like Wal-Mart.

I have written before that real changes comes from honesty of the self, but perhaps even greater honesty is required to make positive changes on the planet at large. We only have one planet and we need to take care of it, and our fellow inhabitants. We need to learn to respect all things and treat them as if they are sacred, because they are.

Sometimes we don’t see the sacred until it was gone, let’s hope that it doesn’t come to that. It’s not to late for a critical analysis of our life style. In fact now that the world is reaching its critical mass, we can now make some of the greatest positive changes in history. Human beings are capable of so much beauty; we need only to express it.

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Comment by Peace_maker on December 20, 2008 at 11:05pm
finding food in the woods my second wifes sees a lot of this happening here
Comment by Peace_maker on December 20, 2008 at 11:04pm
for everything that you had said is very likely so true about our self..people of the present deny this cause they keep looking at money not of future purposes of oil... we have technology to re use nuclear energy
but the elites want just want greed don't think of future.. my wife said here she sees it coming like you had said...we are prepair for the change if some are not this had been said way along ago when I was first married
if there were no store and food was scarce we would be back living in the 20s and forty's again even further then that ..

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