People of Earth: Wake up!

An opinion piece in the Thursday, June 9 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel by New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman left me thinking, "WHEN is it too late to right this ship - the ship called Earth?".

Overpopulated, oversaturated, depleting, deteriorating, high gas prices, high food prices, civil conflict, waste, want, blah-bity, blah, blah, blah, etc. Many give these issues little consideration. We live in the here and now. "Not in my lifetime", as the old adage says. I know - global warming. I'm on the fence with that one. But consider this:  with all the crap humanity is desposing off into and on Mother Earth...well, that can't help her, can it? Mother Earth?

What about the lifetimes of the future peoples of this planet? Consider what we eat - food shortages, chemicals pumped into everything from soybeans to cattle and the like, you can't eat this now 'cause it contains this crap that'll make you grow goat hooves. What will Earth's inhabitants eat in the future, for example? The moon?