Until February of 2013, I was working in and living the American Dream, or some version of it. My wife, whom I love very much, is a full participant in the American Dream and the consumer lifestyle that punctuates that dream. In February, I was laid off from a job that paid really well, and in some subconscious area in my mind, I made that happen.
This may sound crazy, but we are in the last decades of our existence on this planet, and we are probably in the last decade of being able to live that American Dream. I do not have any statistics regarding how many people understand what is happening to our planet, and how many people understand that we may not exist in as few as 20 years from now. I would have to make a guess that this number is somewhere around 0.5%, worldwide. That percentage, I am assuming is much higher in areas like Pakistan, which literally has only months of potable water left for a population of over 200 million people. This will get very ugly, very quickly, in then next few months (http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/02/03/3238781/deforestation-water-energy-pakistan/).
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