"The average per person footprint in the US is 24 acres--over seven times what's sustainable! It's 16 acres in Australia, 19 in Canada and 12 in Northern Europe and Japan. The reality is that in this global economy, only those whom we call "the poor" live within Earth's means and tens of millions of them hope fervently to join the prosperous over consumers who live beyond them.
"Mother Nature doesn't care about poetry or art or whether you go to church. You can't negotiate with her, and you can't spend her and you can't evade her rules. All you can do is fit in as a species. And when a species doesn't learn to fit in with Mother Nature, it gets kicked out. Every day you look in the mirror now, you're seeing an endangered species."
Robert K. Watson, CEO, Echo Tech international
The American Indian knew these logical, irrefutable facts. Why? Because they and their communities lived close to and with nature. They served in and with nature. Many professed lifestyles that looked seven generations forward. Americans long ago crushed or forgot that natural life style.
Many throughout the world have not strayed as far as we have from that simpler more tolerant lifestyle, but not many of today's increasingly obese and worldly unaware Americans are familiar with the benefits to world of living less obtrusively. How do we get Americans, for long the world's leading wasters, to live more consciously?
Involve a MILLION American volunteers per year for a generation in healthy SERVICE that:
Exposes them to our and the world's heavy-handed abuse of the earth.
Involves them in working on projects that benefits and enlightens today and the world's next seven generations.
Offers them a service option that erases the need to go to and serve via wars.
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