In a message dated 9/21/05 11:18:31 PM, inua@CHARTER.NET writes:

<< If we are to survive as a species, we had better get smart and yeild to
the lessons being taught, or we may make like the dinasaurs and simply
disappear. >>

We are doomed.  To me, the problem seems to be that we are driven by the
geometric progression known as procreation.  How ironic that our innate desire for
preservation of the species is leading us to extinction.  While Dr. Paul
Erhlich's predictions (The Population Bomb) mostly have been proven to be wrong, I
think his only error was in assigning too narrow of a timeframe to them.  For
eons the human species has maintained a sustainable population, yet, since
the 1968 release of The Population Bomb, we have 50% more sausage creatures
roaming the Earth.  And that thirty-seven year span of time is not even a grain of
sand on the beach of human history.  Now that the Chinese are driving BMW's
and flipping on 42-inch plasma screen TV's in their quest to be like us, just
wait until that rainforest tribesman starts chanting, "I want my MTV!"

I suppress a twinge of guilt whenever I look at the childhood photos of my
sweet son.  He is seventeen, now, and filled with all the hopes and dreams I had
at that age.  Looking at what might be over the horizon, I have to wonder if
I've done him a disservice giving him the gift of life.

George