We don't know everything the future will bring. We don't know if the richest 1% on the planet will continue transferring virtually all of the wealth to their hands, at the expense of literally everyone else. Or if the scientist in the next post (below or here) is correct - that there's a very real chance we will be extinct in a hundred years. We don't know just damaged the Gulf of Mexico is after the horrific BP oil Gusher. But we do know that there are people all around the world that are ready to try together to make things right. The question is, how?

Behind those little green men above are Australians that are on your side.

As are these South Africans

These Spaniards

These Americans

And these Brazilians

You and all of these people are definitely 'in this thing together' in that the oceans are acidifying globally, the planet heats up globally, chemical toxins are saturating our flesh globally - and we are going to have to come together, globally, to turn things around.

If you hope for a brighter future, remember that all of those above - and many more around the world - do too. We dream with you.

The Question is how? What can all of these people do about the urgent problems we all face together? We are going to begin a new series on that shortly, after a few days away, and in the meantime, your thoughts are more than welcome. (info@worldforallpeople.org)

TURNING and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. - William Butler Yeats

The 'best,' in Yeat's poem, you and us, - not the social and corporate anarchists - the best will have to muster conviction and passion and energy. If the center is to hold.