If you have total assets of $2,222, you are wealthier than half of the world’s population, according to The Economist, which every thinking person should be reading for a fuller perspective on the international forces that literally shape our lives.

The great majority of those who know anything at all about this undeniable situation realize what the real problem is. This planet does not have the natural resources to bring about even a basic quality of existence for all life on it, yet an even more catastrophic situation is going unchecked.

Wholesale destruction of our natural resources is taking place right before our eyes, even to our native forests protected for future generations.

This is caused not only by the overpopulation of our species, which is jeopardizing all life on this planet, but also by a small number of us creating a disastrous health problem for all life by their excessive exercise of colossal greed, ignorance and arrogance.

The best news for us all, as reported in the Press Herald recently (“Youths’ climate lawsuit could force changes in U.S. policy,” Page A2, Dec. 2), is that a group of very young men in Oregon have seen the need to do something dramatic to save our planet and all its life forms by starting a lawsuit that will bring science into the courts in a way that would at long last force recognition of thoroughly substantiated realities.

The one thing that could better serve us all would be for all those mentally alert enough to face these solidly substantiated scientific realities in terms of a growing climatic catastrophe – that is already destroying lives, food supplies and our natural resources in ever-greater numbers everywhere on Earth – to band together and follow suit in every state in our nation.

George Eaton

South Portland

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