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Re:Dalai Lama: Behind Our Anxiety, the Fear of Being Unneeded by pmyjavec on Saturday November 05, 2016 @04:25AM (#12878762)
This is the truth, we've come a long way from a technological and materialistic standpoint, but we've also heavily, heavily stolen from the future, we've stolen from others.

People are losing their homes and livelihoods to deforestation, islands are being inundated with rising sea levels, fracking is polluting water tables and mass animal extinctions are a thing.

At some point the debt needs to be paid off, or we're probably going to be next.

Looking for a purpose? Give back to the natural world and I'm sure some happiness will come out of it!

God knows she needs our help.

Re:Dalai Lama: Behind Our Anxiety, the Fear of Being Unneeded by wolfgke on Saturday November 05, 2016 @07:26AM (#12879265)
> Looking for a purpose? Give back to the natural world and I'm sure some happiness will come out of it!

The problem is the population growth makes it hard to implement that.

Re:Dalai Lama: Behind Our Anxiety, the Fear of Being Unneeded by pmyjavec on Saturday November 05, 2016 @09:15AM (#12879634)
Sad but true, there are just too many people. 11 billion?
Re:Dalai Lama: Behind Our Anxiety, the Fear of Being Unneeded by wolfgke on Saturday November 05, 2016 @10:13AM (#12879842)
According to

> https://www.census.gov/popclock/

the world population is currently at 7.35 billion people.