It is well to look around at whom, and not just what, surrounds us. Population structure will change everything. Our health, wealth, and peace depend on it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The aging and declining population will have far-reaching impacts. Declining fertility rates will possibly increase immigration. The structure of family and society will inevitably change.
A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate. We have to keep looking outward; we have to keep finding new avenues for human endeavor and human expression.
The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.
Most of us feel some kind of uncertainty, with the population increasing and resources decreasing. We have to face these issues.
Human civilization has been changing the Earth's environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles and wind patterns, occasionally triggering droughts or even creating deserts.
In the years to come, the combination of climate change and population growth could have a devastating effect on the planet and, needless to say, on humanity.
The living world has become impoverished. Species are being lost every day. Energy and other resources are nearing exhaustion. The environment is deteriorating. Pollution is everywhere. Climate is changing. Natural balances are threatened.
Change happens from the bottom up - all of us as individuals deciding that we will and we do have an impact.
Our species is on the verge of changes that will fundamentally alter what it means to be human... and we are the people driving that change.
Human society has dense borders - economic, religious and cultural - inculcated from an early age. We hate change.