Christmas 2010 II

Down at the Grans this holiday. It is becoming our tradition. Nice to have parents to visit (both mine are long gone).

That being said, I'd like to get away from it all for the holiday.
The tv, the phones, the internet *gasp*, and live in a "different time".

Looking thru the National Geographic laying about the house, the stories are now more and more reporting not new discoveries of new animals, but of declines and "crashes" of species populations.
the tiger...
bats...
bees...
human population of 7 Billion.
when I was born (40 years ago) we had crossed over 3 Billion, by the time my daughter is grown and ready to have a family of her own, we will be at 9 Billion...

The way we are headed, we are not going to be able to sustain civilization as we know it.