I'll enlist the words of Thom Hartmann from his book The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight , to help me describe our position. In the 24 hours since this time yesterday, over 200,000 acres of rainforest have been destroyed in our world. Fully 13 million tons of toxic chemicals have been released into our environment. And more than 130 plant or animal species have been driven to extinction by the actions of humans. Click here to read the full introduction.
Bill lives and ponders on planet Earth.
Something very like that is happening right now, but the family at risk is the family of life, our kin in this magnificently blue and beautiful world that is our one and only home. Biologists are now telling us that we are in the midst of what they are predicting will be the Sixth Extinction , the sixth major episode of extinction in the history of the planet. Click here to read the rest of this article. My friends, I've come to the conclusion that we have the dubious fortune of living in the most interesting of human times, ever . The people, and particularly the young, lose faith in their leaders and elders, and they no longer accept the traditional explanations for how things came to be this way .