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We live in an age of constant crisis! The Middle East threatens to explode at almost any time. Although the Cold War may be history, many of the former U.S.S.R.'s nuclear weapons still exist. Diplomats and other government officials remind us that Russia still possesses some 20,000 nuclear weapons.
The deadly spread of weapons of mass destruction is an all-pervasive problem. Terrorist groups—generally armed to the teeth with modern weapons and living as a law unto themselves—threaten the stability of many nations.
Population growth still soars out of control in many areas of the world, stretching resources to the limit and leading to further global instability. As The Times (of London) warns, "A ballooning world population is taking such a heavy toll of the planet's resources that it is putting the survival of humankind in jeopardy . . ."
Pollution and other problems threaten to strangle earth's life-sustaining ecosystems. One writer warns that "the West is destroying the ecological systems upon which its economic life depends." A frightening example is the earth's loss of two thirds of its original forest cover. Environmentalist Francis Sullivan warned that "in one generation we are facing the almost complete loss of natural forest." The forests are the lungs of the earth—and without lungs, we cannot breathe.
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