We don't know everything the future will bring. We don't know if the richest 1% on the planet will continue transferring virtually all of the wealth to their hands, at the expense of literally everyone else. We don't know if the scientist in the next post (below or here) is correct - that there's a very real chance we will be extinct in a hundred years. We don't know just how dead the Gulf of Mexico will be after the horrific ongoing oil Gusher. But we do know that there are people all around the world that are ready to try together to make things right. The question is, how?

Eminent Australian scientist Professor Frank Fenner, who helped to wipe out smallpox, predicts humans will probably be extinct within 100 years, because of overpopulation, environmental destruction and climate change. That does not have to be. But to prevent that as a possibility, when will humanity come together enough to address our global problems?

This far from the center of the universe, it's easy to see humanity as one.

"The Chinese are hoping to recover valuable metals such as copper, nickel and cobalt – used in mobile phones, laptops and batteries – as well as gold and silver, in an area of currently inactive "hydrothermal vents", underwater geysers driven by volcanic activity."

Mining, thousands of feet below the surface of the ocean, is man's next move in the search for materials for cell phones, automobile dashboards, countless other consumer products.

To change the world's minds,

people need to know the reality of this. We suggest you spread this video any way you can.

The ocean is still pretty - if you steer your yaught clear of the oily sections and swirling eddies of millions of tons of plastic garbage. But it is not healthy.

"I don't see any future for whale species except extinction. This not on anybody's radar, no government's radar anywhere, and I think it should be."

The canary in the coal mine has become the whale in the ocean. New information;

Wherever you are in the world, what is making it's way into your food is not 'all good.' But a few steps can help take care of your health;

I slept through the oil disaster. It gushes still, and has not stopped for two months. But I had to sleep through some of that. And work. I've seen a couple of good movies in that time too, and went away for a few days. I've been out to dinner, the gym, played some tennis, and done laundry and dishes. And while I was thinking of other things, that oil did not stop spewing for a single second.

Even during an event as staggering as BP's monumental screw up, we must put it out of our minds some of the time, and simply live our lives. And;

Nothing to add - that video speaks very well for itself.

Today's thinking conservatives have to be straddling a barbed fence: There is enough evidence before them that they must be realizing - they've been mistaken.

Conservatism belongs on the scrap heap of isms, the pile of ideas that conclusively cannot work. Evidence follows:

If ever you wonder whether humankind has the potential to make things better, you will find this new video very interesting. It's also very entertaining! Click 'read more' to view.

It is still gushing. Today, June 24, Day 63. A portion of the gusher is being siphoned off, but tens of thousands of barrels of oil are still entering the water every day.

We don't know when it will finally be stopped. Update Aug 2, 2010. The gusher may be permanently stopped later today. We hope it goes well.

And the next coal plant goes here:

"The newest proposal will build the coal plant, as photos below reveal, on an undeveloped beach overlooking the Coral Triangle, one of the world's most biodiverse marine environments, with transmission lines likely running through nearby pristine rainforest that are home to several endangered species, including orangutans and Bornean rhinos."

"One day, I realized I vote every single day - in what I don't purchase, or do, in what I choose to speak or not speak about , and how."

                                                           Joyful in La Calla, Spain


We are going to need a unity among people, recognizing that from drilling to chemical production, managing the financial system to dealing with ocean acidification, the right thing to do is always viciously opposed by the most profitable short term thing to do for corporate players.

People need to govern capitalism, and not allow the reverse. Take a good look at faces of the kids in these pictures. And please click to see a few more,

Now this may seem unlikely but it is a real opportunity to help out!

The continuing undersea oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico will do profound damage over a long period of time. That is unavoidable now. But, believe it or not, your hair can help.