A TROUBLESHOOTERS ANALYSIS OF THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT

Contemporary media bring us news of wars, political scandal, ecologica l disasters, space explorations, religious edicts, economic good or ba d news and major league sports scores. These appear to be humanity's m ost pressing issues. But beneath these issues lies a pervasive matter, an issue close to, but inhibited from, the conscious mind and the fee ling heart of most humans-the spectre of possible human extinction. It has been pointed out time and again by individuals and scientific gro ups that exponential population and industrial growth leads directly t o the end of planet Earth's ability to sustain human life. It seems th at we do not know how to stop this growth, so we do not talk about it. A troubleshooter concludes that we could learn to talk about it, and we could stop this insidious growth.