Tuesday, November 8, 2011

SEVEN BILLION AND COUNTING?

Sometime during the month of November, the seventh billion baby was born. Mind you, that was not an exact figure but an approximation. I don't know about you, but I can't get my head around a number like that, or around budgets of trillions, or the hundreds, thousands,millions or more of one individual being worth more than another.

The resources of this planet are finite. How do we manage ourselves as well as others when there are seven billion of us? When we were children we played the game "Monopoly." We were able to count and collect each denomination and hold the bills from one to 500 dollars in our hands. We rented properties. We bought and sold utilities. It made sense!

We stopped playing "Monopoly" a long time ago. I wonder what kind of "game" will these new children play as they join us on this planet and will it make sense?

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