The harbingers of our own demise, should our actions remain unaltered, as our children and their children will surely be faced with a wealth of continuing problems, an exponentially increasing global populace, rapid habitat loss, deforestation, and further environmental degradation, increased contact with infectious and emerging diseases, global food and water shortages, as well as pollution, global warming, rising sea levels, climate and seasonal changes, as well as countless others. Most of the people are so far removed with most of the social, health, and environmental problems plaguing society today.  Lulled by the mass media and mass consumerisms, we buy, we feel safe, we ignore. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Never breaking the cycle. Those who arise from their slumber, seeing the big picture and the implications of their actions, are often omitted from thought by those still myopic in character.

These are the ones who will not realize and accept that a vital change is necessary if we are to better ourselves as well as our future generations who will become the inheritors our destructive and detestable legacy. It is a daunting task to change the minds of the masses, but through persistence more will wake and join the ranks. Change will come, and it will be those most responsive to that change, those who adapt, that will survive, rather than the strongest or the smartest that may not see the change until it is upon them.

-ck