The Big Brass Ring

Dear Friends,What follows is a tetnative, overly simplified proposal, one designed to save the world perhaps.Then, again Somehow we, the experienced elders, could conceivably do our children a good service 1) by passing the word regarding some kind of plan like Jack Alpert's proposition for Rapid Population Decline and by employing our intelligence, science and technology to begin a process of humanely doing as Reiel Folven of Norway is suggesting: fitting the size of the human population to the size of the Earth 2) by downsizing/rightsizing the global economy to fit Earth's carrying capacity, perhaps using a model like the one from Aubrey Meyer in England, Contraction and Convergence and 3) by figuring out the fair and just ways to cap per capita consumption of resources so that human consumption realistically fits with what can be sustained in our planetary home. Obviously, a huge challenge is posed to humanity by the unbridled growth of the human population; however, there appears to be a powerful synergy at work in the interplay of humankind's propagation, production and consumption activities now appearing to threaten life as we know it and the integrity of Earth. As we begin to move in other directions, I am supposing that there would be some kind of beneficial synergy that would help us back down and away from the edge of the ledge at the top of the highest cliff where we seem to have thoughtlessly, inadvertently and unintentionally driven our species.Somehow, some ways will be found that safeguard the children, their children and coming generations from their elders' adamant, relentless and patently unsustainable pursuit of the endless wealth to be acquired along a primrose path, the one that could soon take the innocent children beyond the end of the world' and into the abyss. Always,Steve