Wednesday, June 8, 2011

What ARE we thinking? DEPLETING EARTH

Very thoughtful article by Tom Friedman (NYTimes)...re: life choices and earth's depleting resources.... and really makes one wonder WHY we are poisoning our most limited and vital resource - WATER - for GAS? Just WHAT ARE WE THINKING???!

You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we’ll look back at the first decade of the 21st century — when food prices spiked, energy prices soared, world population surged, tornados plowed through cities, floods and droughts set records, populations were displaced and governments were threatened by the confluence of it all — and ask ourselves: What were we thinking? How did we not panic when the evidence was so obvious that we’d crossed some growth/climate/natural resource/population redlines all at once?http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/08/opinion/08friedman.html?hp