2007 - The Beginning of Change

Things are continuously changing, of course. I am of the belief that we are at the beginning of a new beginning. Lifestyles, cultures, cities, laws, and just about everything that we have become used to is going to change. Why? To name a few of the big catalysts - Oil, health care, global warming, population growth, China and India's emergence into the global economy, religion, "The next US President", baby boomers, nuclear technology, and big business. None of this is new information. What is new. What people don't/can't comprehend. Is that mankind has never been faced with these types of circumstances. These things don't just work themselves out. We will need heroes, great men and women to lead us through this "time of change." They will have to make tough decisions. People will die, as they have in Darfur, Iraq, Afghanistan, Louisiana, and Africa(AIDS). Things are most likely not going to get better anytime soon. This is how mankind has navigated his way through time. For lack of a better phrase he "Rides the wave until it crashes." We have built a global economy that is growing at an unsustainable rate. Oil, the precious resource that is "fueling" this growth is becoming harder and harder to pull out of the Earth. Oil is power and humans have a tendency to do "bad things" to gain power.