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The world’s population exceeds eight billion people; more than the planet can easily bear. The environment, other species, and all of us face a bleak future that calls us to a deeper trust in God’s love that used Jesus’ embrace of the Way of the Cross to bring about an unexpected hope for the world.
Eight billion is a lot of people. In fact, it is practically impossible for any of us to even count that high, let alone grasp the magnitude of the number. We could probably not finish counting to 8,000,000,000 before the end of the century if we were to start counting today and went without resting, eating, or doing anything else for all that time.
If that child born on Nov 15 survives infancy and childhood, in what sort of world will she or he grow up and live? Our impact is so drastic that earth scientists speak of a new geologic epoch they dub the “Anthropocene.” That epochal name comes from the Greek “anthropos,” meaning “human.” It is superseding the Holocene that began some 11,650 years ago when the latest ice age ended and humans began to spread and develop agriculture, technology and civilisations.
Those extinctions are brought about by habitat destruction when population pressure causes people to take over other species’ homes. Pollution of air and water are further causes. Over them all is climate change brought about by burning the fossils of earlier flora and fauna, now oil, gas and coal.
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