Written over 10 years ago, this opening paragraph of Tom Friedman's “The Earth Is Full” is even more relevant now, and we're still digging in deeper!
It leaves me wondering how much longer it's going to continue before governments stop being manipulated by the "Captains of Industry" for their economic gain. The warning bells are ever-loudening ...
"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?"
#EnvironmentCrisis #population #consumerism #CorporateGreed
https://archive.thinkprogress.org/the-earth-is-full-tom-friedman-on-the-great-disruption-d54e8ca1c274/
