think, is that the planet earth will
never again function in the future the way it has functioned in the past.
That is the burden of educators at the present time.
Is to educate not for the declining sinusoid, but for the emerging eco siod,
the period when people will be present to the planet in a mutually enhancing way.
Because in the future, there's more to think about,
because we have intruded so
profoundly into the functioning of the planet.
That whereas the planet developed in its all its gorgeous qualities and all its
splendor and its radiance completely apart from humans, because we didn't exist.
So that what we see so beautiful, the river here,
the palisade, the trees, and all of this,
we didn't exist when all this came into being.
But in this beauty, in the future, we have so
intruded on the functioning of the soil.
We've changed the soil, we've even changed the chemistry of the planet.
We have changed the conditions to life in such a profound
way that almost nothing is going to happen that we will not be involved in.
And when I was born, there were less than two billion people on the planet.
Young people now will see 8 to 10 billion.
And the luxuries that I enjoy, that we enjoy,
they will not enjoy for very long.
Because the petroleum based way of life,
industrial way of life that we are living,.
Our food is petroleum, our transportation petroleum,
our clothing is petroleum, our transportation is petroleum,
just about our entire utensils are so extensively, well they would be all gone.
This immense population to take care of, but
without this basic resource that will never exist again.