Entire world needs to become aware

If the 1.875 billion people living in our industrialized nations are creating 80 percent of the green house gases that are causing global warming and all of our other ecological challenges, the increasing industrialization, population growth and ecological destruction that is being created will greatly accelerate the pace of global warming and our race extinction.

If we want to prevent an early and unnecessary extinction event from causing an unconscionable end to all or most of the life on our planet, not only must we stop destroying the life support system but we must also stop adding a billion additional people to the population every 12 to 14 years. To accomplish this transformation is an intelligent and conscionable manner, all of our populations must be made aware of the disastrous effects our present uncontrolled growth and ecological destruction in order to create the motivation and unity that is needed to keep our numbers and activities within the sustainable life support capacity of our biosphere.

The bottom line is that if we don’t stop overpopulating and destroying the planet not only will we create an unnecessary short and violent future for ourselves, but we will have demonstrated the critical difference between becoming clever and capable and being truly intelligent and aware.

This story was originally published September 22, 2017 at 3:30 PM with the headline "Entire world needs to become aware."