Perhaps we will also help you find a new sense of hope and purpose. The most difficult aspect of coming to an ecological understanding of the world is in changing one's own life style. But they begin in one place and in one form - in our own heads and in our own day to day actions. Our natural systems are threatened by human activity. The increase in population and resource consumption are basic causes of human suffering and environmental degradation and must become major priorities for national and international action.
Population growth tends to overwhelm any possible gains made in improving the human condition.
To Growth We live on a finite planet with finite resources. We are consuming our capital when we should be living off the interest. We are undermining the ability of natural cycles to renew such resources as clean water, fish, topsoil, and trees. Problems are increasing faster than solutions. There is a point beyond which a system will fail to produce additional benefits simply by making it larger or more complex.