What Happened Today? Stormy, rainy morning. No walk. Meeting at Coronado Paint with Alberdingk-Boley. Good session. Received bid sheet for epoxies. Kay switched living room around. Lost my sleeping spot.
GAIA- Planetary Management:
131. Today, the rise of human numbers casts a shadow over planet Earth.
132. We have reached a total of five and a half billion people, and we are plainly failing to feed, house, educate and employ many of these in basically acceptable fashion.
133. Worse, the human community is projected to reach at least 10 billion before the population explosion fizzles out into zero growth early in the 22nd century.
134. The problem does not lie only in a sheer outburst of human numbers.
135. It lies also in an outburst of human consumerism.