If we are serious about confronting the critical mass of problems staring at us across the horizon, then we should be building the army People's Lobby's citizen-initiated American World Service Corps Congressional Proposals proposes. Instead, we dabble around the edges with a Kennedy National Service bill that has the Peace Corps at barely half the size it was in 1969 and slowly building AmeriCorps.
The earth and its people are losing this critically massing war because the once strongest nation in the world has failed to field the right army for the 20th, and now 21st century, that could have balanced the needs of people and creatures environmentally and economically. And, that "right" army could have kept us out of a couple deadly costly wars.
Over the last several generations, Americans have become too accustomed to sitting, talking, and grousing than in getting up, building, and serving. Warnings pile up -- from melting glaciers, swirling tsunamis, overflowing levees, changing climates, growing terrorist cells -- yet we don't build the AWSC, which is intended to inspire other nations to do the same, to combat these forces.
For too many Americans, a flood isn't a problem until they are piling sandbags around their house. Too many Americans for too long have not learned through service that builds empathy, understanding, and knowledge that we all live in the same house.
Critical Mass is a wonderfully crafted book. But if people are to learn "Life's Economic Survival Protocol," a good book is not enough. Millions of world citizens must be involved in corps that serve in the world. Through service they must live, work, share, and learn from:
ECOnomies that waste little.
ECOnomies that spread inexhaustible energy forms.
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