Maybe it is the book I just finished, but I keep thinking of a comment Richard made to me at one of the Confabs. "We are living in a golden age and we dont even know it."
Perhaps it is a bit melancholy but is it true? Is this a golden age? Is it about to end?
Sadly they dont provide streaming video but tonight's story about the environment on 60 Minutes has me thinking about the end of a golden age. While we party in our Escalades and our coal-powered apartments, Rome is burning although this time Rome is not a city, it is the planet.
I hope I am wrong, but I think the world we will face when my first child turns 20 will be a very different place from today. For starters, there wont be any wild polar bears left and there will be a whole lot fewer people.
A Global Warning
Feb. 19, 2006
(CBS) The North Pole has been frozen for 100,000 years. But according to scientists, that won't be true by the end of this century. The top of the world is melting.
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