I saw emotional and financial depression in Las Vegas, where I lived, across the USA on national TV, and globally from friends who came from there to here for work. Why are all these people I care about, including myself, in pain?!

There’s more people on the planet than ever before. We are using natural resources in faster ways than ever before – neither Jesus nor Buddha owned an SUV. AND Global weather is changing. The icecaps are melting, rising water levels mean there is less land for housing, industry and farming. Plants and animals depend on specific kinds of weather to survive, they can’t live where they used to, move it or lose it, both are happening under our very eyes and feet.

A childhood memory came back to haunt me; when I was 7 – 8 years old a teacher said the mistakes made by people their age would have to be dealt with by people my age; me. What could I do about all this? There ARE answers out there, other ways of doing things, mostly old ways, a few new ways. I am joyfully searching for ways to survive. I am comforted knowing there are other scouts seeking a safe haven in our future; I am one of many.