We R Doomed

11:25:15 P:
ok--I'll tell you what's bugging me--I'm both pissed off and scared at the same time.

My husband put on a TV show titled what would the earth be like without any people? It was sort of like a "Day After" type of show.  He ALLOWS EMILY to watch it, as well as Sarah. But EMILY IS ONLY 6 YEARS OLD!!

I hear the subject matter, about how the electricity would gradually stop, and how it would take about a week for all the domestic dogs to die, and I yelled that she should not be watching that.

So, he turns it off.

For the rest of the night, I've been obsessing about death--my children dying, me dying, why did I bring children into this horrible world? How could I ever protect them from the scary things that might happen to us with all the natural resources drying up and people not willing to do anything to preserve them?

Of course the TV show had shown footage of the most adorable little dogs possible and how it would be difficult for them to get out of their houses without their people to find food, and by the time they could get out, they'd be eating dead flesh and that would probably make them sick and die anyway.

As I'm putting Emily to bed, I'm thinking how bright and funny and happy and beautiful she is, and how long will the world last...how old will she get to live will she have a decent life....then it was Sarah's turn and I could not bear it anymore.  Tears streamed down my face--I'm too weak for this world anymore..

How do we know that it won't happen in our life time? Why shouldn't we care about generations of humans following ours? With all the talk about global warming happening in the next 10 years, I kind of think it could be our lifetime.

Do I really want to see that kind of world my children/grandchildren could have to live in?

A friend said, "a lot of things must happen before anything close like that will occur."

My response was, "Wow--really? Like, nuclear war? How unrealistic is that? World wide economic collapse? That's been talked about for a few months now, too. All we need is one moderate earthquake, a stock market sell off, both on the same day, and California might as well be in the ocean with our million-dollar homes that are really worth about 100,000$. Or, just all the water drying up...that would be fun wouldn't it."

My friend says: "What can we do about it?

"We have to try something, don't we?  I mean, we don't know what will happen, but the natural resources are not limitless, so what we can conserve would be good, wouldn't it."

This morning, I see a quote from Carl Sandberg, "Babies are a sign that God wants the earth to continue." I then smiled.