The following article appeared in the New York Times on 7th June 2011. It brilliantly sums up where we have got to on this beautiful planet and the change that is essential if we are to preserve "life as we know it". As stated denial is a natural reaction but when we can move past this, taking action in  what ever way you feel apropriate becomes empowering.

THE EARTH IS FULL By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN                            
Published: June 7, 2011

You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we’ll look back at the first decade of the 21st century — when food prices spiked, energy prices soared, world population surged, tornados plowed through cities, floods and droughts set records, populations were displaced and governments were threatened by the confluence of it all — and ask ourselves: What were we thinking? How did we not panic when the evidence was so obvious that we’d crossed some growth/climate/natural resource/population redlines all at once?