n maize to manufacture gasoline oil to feed their ferocious energy-mix giant. But will they ever reach a stage when they will sigh with relief and say that perennial energy shortages are gone forever? Perhaps they will if they will discover the real source of scarcity.

A certain ethnic community in Africa has realized that there is no more spacious grazing fields, but has found comfort in an unlikely place. A wise saying attributed to the ethnic community’s past has resurfaced. The depressed people facing depressed resources are tenaciously holding on to the saying, at least, b

It is only in a few isolated places that population growth may be contributing to fast depleting resources. But for the rest of the world, it is ferocious consumerism, greed, and easy life of the modern man. Man has become a monster that need to be tamed, so that the earth will become safe and be able to replenish and regenerate to continue providing for her inhabitants.

Man depletes resources in many ways. Consider a why man or lady in a massive oil –guzzling vehicles, and probably same types of vehicles, about thirty of them, with one passenger each, from the same headquarters heading to the same meeting. And left behind in their houses are dazzling and unbelievably massive, and breath-taking electronic cachets and domestic appliances meant to bring comfort, pleasure and make their lives easy. Most of the houses are occupied by the loners only. Also think of wars bedeviling the world. Most of their causes are linked to consumerism, greed, and easy life styles of people living near or far away. The rich and overly consuming people in the developed world would blame population as the cause of wars and other problems in the third world. They have not pause to think how they are contributing.

Third world countries with abundant natural resources, but poor, are fighting to put themselves strategically to supply the resources to the drive the consumer machine of the first world in order to maintain their new-found life-style that they have acquired from the same first-world countries. And now everybody is talking about fast dwindling resources and attributing it to population growth.

The most pressing worry for the first world is that fossil oil is fast getting finished. As they think of other possible fuel to add into their energy mix, they feel they must put themselves strategically to acquire the scarce resources. And the poor peasants of the third world are fighting for poor, barren, and dry patch of land or a muddy stretch.

For the advanced countries, solution to dwindling resources is not in changing their consumer life-styles, but in technology. But they have not stopped to ask themselves how far technology will serve their monstrous life-styles. There is hyperactivity in the first world as experts stretch themselves to elastic limits to identify and develop new fuels. Now they have zeroed on maize to manufacture gasoline oil to feed their ferocious energy-mix giant. But will they ever reach a stage when they will sigh with relief and say that perennial energy shortages are gone forever? Perhaps they will if they will discover the real source of scarcity.

A certain ethnic community in Africa has realized that there is no more spacious grazing fields, but has found comfort in an unlikely place. A wise saying attributed to the ethnic community’s past has resurfaced. The depressed people facing depressed resources are tenaciously holding on to the saying, at least, be

s heading to the same meeting. And left behind in their houses are dazzling and unbelievably massive, and breath-taking electronic cachets and domestic appliances meant to bring comfort, pleasure and make their lives easy. Most of the houses are occupied by the loners only. Also think of wars bedeviling the world. Most of their causes are linked to consumerism, greed, and easy life styles of people living near or far away. The rich and overly consuming people in the developed world would blame population as the cause of wars and other problems in the third world. They have not pause to think how they are contributing.

Third world countries with abundant natural resources, but poor, are fighting to put themselves strategically to supply the resources to the drive the consumer machine of the first world in order to maintain their new-found life-style that they have acquired from the same first-world countries. And now everybody is talking about fast dwindling resources and attributing it to population growth.

The most pressing worry for the first world is that fossil oil is fast getting finished. As they think of other possible fuel to add into their energy mix, they feel they must put themselves strategically to acquire the scarce resources. And the poor peasants of the third world are fighting for poor, barren, and dry patch of land or a muddy stretch.

For the advanced countries, solution to dwindling resources is not in changing their consumer life-styles, but in technology. But they have not stopped to ask themselves how far technology will serve their monstrous life-styles. There is hyperactivity in the first world as experts stretch themselves to elastic limits to identify and develop new fuels. Now they have zeroed on maize to manufacture gasoline oil to feed their ferocious energy-mix giant. But will they ever reach a stage when they will sigh with relief and say that perennial energy shortages are gone forever? Perhaps they will if they will discover the real source of scarcity.

A certain ethnic community in Africa has realized that there is no more spacious grazing fields, but has found comfort in an unlikely place. A wise saying attributed to the ethnic community’s past has resurfaced. The depressed people facing depressed resources are tenaciously holding on to the saying, at least, b

to think how they are contributing.

Third world countries with abundant natural resources, but poor, are fighting to put themselves strategically to supply the resources to the drive the consumer machine of the first world in order to maintain their new-found life-style that they have acquired from the same first-world countries. And now everybody is talking about fast dwindling resources and attributing it to population growth.

The most pressing worry for the first world is that fossil oil is fast getting finished. As they think of other possible fuel to add into their energy mix, they feel they must put themselves strategically to acquire the scarce resources. And the poor peasants of the third world are fighting for poor, barren, and dry patch of land or a muddy stretch.

For the advanced countries, solution to dwindling resources is not in changing their consumer life-styles, but in technology. But they have not stopped to ask themselves how far technology will serve their monstrous life-styles. There is hyperactivity in the first world as experts stretch themselves to elastic limits to identify and develop new fuels. Now they have zeroed on maize to manufacture gasoline oil to feed their ferocious energy-mix giant. But will they ever reach a stage when they will sigh with relief and say that perennial energy shortages are gone forever? Perhaps they will if they will discover the real source of scarcity.

A certain ethnic community in Africa has realized that there is no more spacious grazing fields, but has found comfort in an unlikely place. A wise saying attributed to the ethnic community’s past has resurfaced. The depressed people facing depressed resources are tenaciously holding on to the saying, at least, b

energy mix, they feel they must put themselves strategically to acquire the scarce resources. And the poor peasants of the third world are fighting for poor, barren, and dry patch of land or a muddy stretch.

For the advanced countries, solution to dwindling resources is not in changing their consumer life-styles, but in technology. But they have not stopped to ask themselves how far technology will serve their monstrous life-styles. There is hyperactivity in the first world as experts stretch themselves to elastic limits to identify and develop new fuels. Now they have zeroed on maize to manufacture gasoline oil to feed their ferocious energy-mix giant. But will they ever reach a stage when they will sigh with relief and say that perennial energy shortages are gone forever? Perhaps they will if they will discover the real source of scarcity.

A certain ethnic community in Africa has realized that there is no more spacious grazing fields, but has found comfort in an unlikely place. A wise saying attributed to the ethnic community’s past has resurfaced. The depressed people facing depressed resources are tenaciously holding on to the saying, at least, b

n maize to manufacture gasoline oil to feed their ferocious energy-mix giant. But will they ever reach a stage when they will sigh with relief and say that perennial energy shortages are gone forever? Perhaps they will if they will discover the real source of scarcity.

A certain ethnic community in Africa has realized that there is no more spacious grazing fields, but has found comfort in an unlikely place. A wise saying attributed to the ethnic community’s past has resurfaced. The depressed people facing depressed resources are tenaciously holding on to the saying, at least, because it seems to give them some hope. The saying goes; “An enemy cannot die of old age in another’s homeland”. But one wonders why the saying still make sense to them yet members of other ethnic groups have come, settled, farm, do business, marry and have died of old age or sickness and they have since been buried in their land. The ethnic community might now be using the saying with stretched meaning, a call to take back the land that had previously been theirs.

Repossessing may be through war or buying back. But buried deep in the community’s past is a saying that nobody can exhaust the earth. In their distant past, people fought for cattle and not land. With superficial look it would appear that the only reason why they are now fighting for land is because it was becoming scarce due to population growth. But this African ethnic community like many others has since embraced consumerism, greed and easy life style of their first –world countries counterparts.

The people who used to claim the earth was so expansive and cannot be exhausted are now saying that according to their forefathers, the land stretching about 400 Kilometers to the escarpments belonged to them. They have not been left behind by the culture of consuming and amassing of wealth. If it is true that they used to occupy the land, one wonders how they were going to have it back, fully intact.