Ancient Sunlight

History repeats itself. People tend to forget what happened to the world hundreds of thousands years ago. Maybe if we were just aware of what happened in the past, it would be great if it will only be a lesson learned. But the way we are today, it seems like we are doing more than what they did. The worst part is, it is already affecting the future generations. According to nationageographic.com, people overuse our natural resources. With the world being over populated, we are misusing earth’s treasure. We overuse our land, water, forest, and air. The third world countries are usually the overpopulated nation. Since they do not have the means for modern technology, don’t have the proper knowledge about what will happen if they multiply so fast, they are not aware of the future. All they know is how to live in the present. But then, they shouldn’t be to blame. An article on overpopulation.org website states that human are already facing self-destruction. We are the modern dinosaur. We keep on buying cars, jets, large homes, which need fossil fuels. Then we make more babies and the tendency was to consume more food. We should be aware of what is happening in the world right now. We keep on blaming others but we should look at ourselves first before we start pointing fingers to those who we think are the culprit of this modern world.

I have the old version of the book. My page numbers are different from the book that most of the class are using. But i will put the pages on my book anyways.
The topics that interest me the most are:

"Even in the face of this and other evidence of the potential dangers and present calamities produced by our explosive growth, those shouted down as Luddites or environmental extremists or are dismissed as being ignorant of basic economics... or as being "anti-growth" as if what we need is more growth." (p.32)

"Our minds and our cultures created our situation. There's great insight in understanding this, the power in realizing how much of a role we can play in redefining the future of the planet for ourselves and our children." (p.117)

"We live in a culture that includes the principle that if somebody else has something we need, and they won't give it to us, and we have the means to kill them to get it, it's not unreasonable to go get it, using whatever force we need to. In some cases, it's even our duty to do so." (p.124)