Our Changing World

Our series about "our changing world" continues this evening with two looks at how our world is changing from the new york times.

the first article is here - apparently europe has adopted a "back door" policy, and their population is declining.

Secondly, we have a read here - which is about US air carriers having to cut down on the number of flights they make.

It's a scary thing to live in the world today. The 1990's a decade of relative peace and prosperity brought us a lot of things without really providing a decent enough infrastructure for it. The bubble as they say is bursting. But this may not be such a bad thing, as the first article reminds us (last two pages). Perhaps we've built something huge and unsustainable and now we're in a period (maybe years) of readjustment. Perhaps it's better to start scaling things back as a globe, start using less, starting having fewer people.

It wasn't until native americans had over hunted certain animal populations that they developed their sophisticated approach to using the land. Maybe we're at the start of a period where we begin to rethink how we treat the world and ourselves. Maybe we'll have fewer people, less pollution, less hunger, less unemployment, etc, because things will naturally balance themselves out. We'll see.

-cjfer-