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To: arun gera who wrote (202592)	5/16/2009 9:28:04 AM
From: saveslivesbyday	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

"How come the next 500 percent growth is unsustainable but the last 1000 percent was considered almost a right?" Because human nature prevents most people from seeing a problem until it becomes a crisis or catastrophe - IMO

To: arun gera who wrote (202592)	5/16/2009 10:25:16 AM
From: Perspective	Respond to of 306849

Yes, the voracious appetite of just the relatively small population of the Western world is probably not sustainable alone. It's just a matter of time scale to catastrophe. With 5X more people wanting to rape, pillage, and destroy our habitat, the time frame accelerates from a century, which people simply can't grasp, to a handful of decades. Most people still struggle with that, but at least a few of our leaders may be able to yank the steering wheel in the right direction now. While the U.S. could get away with its gluttony in a world of controlled media, the Internet and freer communications have made it impossible to hide in the bathroom wolfing down the planet's resources while the rest of the globe is huddled around an empty cupboard, stuck on a starvation diet. `BC