Population

World population projected to reach 7 billion next year -source CNN
Individual families need to be responsible about how many people they are adding! 1 or 2 kids... 3's pushing it... 5 or 6? no. Octomom & those like her having "litters" of humans... who can condone that?

The point I want to make here is that at some point we all have to stop and think - are our individual 'wants' good for humanity as a whole?
Human population grew to 3 billion by around 1960, we doubled that in just 40 years, and projections say 9 billion by 2050. We've already depleted the best quality and easiest to reach resouces the planet has to offer. What remains is lower quality and harder to extract, so we're using MORE resources to find LESS. We're on a downward slope with available resources while our population continues to grow exponentially. Knowing this, is it responsible to purposely have more than 2 or 3 children per family? Is what we want more important than what's right?

Native American philosophy states that each generation has a responsibility to ensure the survival of the seventh. Yet our current way of life, Consume and Toss, is not sustainable and will have dire consequences. IS having dire consequences! We can't even ensure our own survival any longer, much less the seventh?

The status quo isn't working... life as we knew it is gone. We have to adapt or die... we have to start thinking differently about ourselves and each other. I don't have any answers, but I feel very strongly that we all have the potential to be part of the solution, each one of us being a piece of the puzzle... but the pieces must all come together before we see the big picture. I do sense that our collective consciousness is beginning to move in the right direction, but I fear we'll fit that last piece into place only to realize that we figured it out much too late.