Surprising Survey

A recent survey by a market-research group conducted for the Wall Street Journal asked a group of world-wide respondents how they view the global society. "Is the current global situation improving or declining?" they asked. The number of negative responses is stunning. About twenty percent said that things were getting a lot worse. Besides the continuing problems in Iraq and the Middle East and the looming economic collapse of America's housing market, respondents were worried about the wide-spread degradation of the environment. Count me in that group as well. We are destroying our planet at a pace that appears suicidal. The pollution of our water and land continue almost unabated. What's going on? There is only one nest for all of us humans. If we destroy the nest we destroy ourselves. The problem isn't in the fact that we destroy things. After all, how can you eat an egg if you don't break the shell? The problem is that we are breaking too many shells to get too little eggs. We have passed the "tipping stage," a point where order morphs into chaos, where the law of diminishing returns take effect. We can correct things by attaining more balance in our personal lives, which will then produce balance in our "world view." The bottom line is that we live in a vast universe on a tiny planet far out in space. We are all we have. Love for one another is paramount for our future. Let's begin to care about each other today, not tomorrow, TODAY!