“Now Wreck, do you really think either your overpopulation or your parent licensing ideas can be accomplished? And if so, how long would it take?”
“Chet, we don’t have any time, and admittedly great things always take time. Shakespeare didn’t scribble off Hamlet in an afternoon. Michelangelo took a few years to paint the Sistine Chapel. And how long did it take Homer to formulate his great epics. We need the speed and expertise of an economic Mozart to accomplish the sublime —and the seemingly impossible. The one thing I know is that if I don’t do all I can to save our world, my life hasn’t been worth living. I remember what Martin Luther King believed. He said that ‘The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.’ He did what he did because of the challenges of his time, and I must pick up the gauntlet and fight for the challenges of my time.
“Realistically I’m pessimistic. Most people think only of their miniscule social and religious nooks and don’t want to acknowledge the reality of overpopulation and how it is already affecting them. Politicians in democracies are overwhelmingly concerned with the next election. Businessmen want profits today.
“I must join that small snowball that is already rolling down the hill. We all must become part of that avalanche of realistic fear, cascading down the mountain of inertia--whose rumbles awake the sleeping giants of ignorance and myth. We must be awakened to the reality of the crushing of our earthly home. To escape that avalanche people must move now! You can’t wait until your television program is finished, or wait until tomorrow, to escape. People must be awakened from their dreams--that all will be well tomorrow. As comforting as that dream is, thinking minds and the evidence of science clearly show that our planet is in peril— and the fate of our progeny is in our hands, and ours alone.
“The great majority of the people are concerned with their immediate selfish interests. They seem to think that tomorrow will be like yesterday. But today is yesterday’s tomorrow and the effects of yesterday’s actions are the causes of today’s plight and tomorrow’s panic. Can we few voices crying in the wilderness wake up the people, their politicians, their priests, and their prophets. I am hopeful. I know that I have to try! It may be an impossible mission, but it must be done. If there ever was a life or death issue, this is it!”
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