Warnings were clearly present in 1970 about what we as a species were doing to impact the environment. The bulk of us who were alive and in communication at the time ignored the warnings. (indeed there nearly twice as many of us now as there were back then)
Denial, debate and depression have been with us about our environmental impact have been the leading influences on our thinking for 40 years and now we are in the second decade of the new millennium and the warnings are getting louder and the impacts are becoming obvious.
Optimism is our only recourse now. It is time for our species to use the great gifts we have to become on mass the stewards of our global society and our world to spread the awareness of our impact and to roll up our collective sleeves and get to work.
We have all the technologies we need for a sustainable future and if we can in one decade reach out into space and plant footprints on the surface of the moon surely we can organize ourselves to restore the gardens of our one and only Eden?
So I call on everyone now to see themselves working in this decade and beyond for the benefit our our Earth. We have dug too deep and too greedily into her and now we must make amends and choose ways to prosper by her restoration. To do well as we do good and heal our planet, our birthplace, our one and only home.
