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"British physicist Stephen Hawking’s dire warning: “I don’t think we will survive another 1,000 years without escaping beyond our fragile planet.” Hawking gave his first Australian speech at Sydney’s Opera House via hologram from his office at the University of Cambridge.

“I want to share my excitement and enthusiasm about this quest, so remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet,” Hawking continued. I think most leaders are doing neither. If they did look down at their feet, they might notice that we are poisoning and destroying the very environment that sustains all life.

And the captains of trade and industry? Well they are really only interested in looking into the black holes of their deep pockets – from which nothing escapes (even light)."

Bigger brains then mine take it for granted we won't survive another thousand years. Frankly, I don't believe we will be here in the next 200 years..and it wouldn't surprise me if we were gone by the end of this century. Why? Because we have saturated our soil, our air, and our bodies with poison. We are allowing chemical companies like Monsanto to modify and insert poison and chemicals into what we eat. GMO's are very scary but what we have done to animal husbandry is a tragedy. The suffering animals on this planet go through just to satisfy our greed is unconscionable. We make excuses not to do our part. Why? Why isn't every human on this planet protecting this planet and all the creatures that inhabit it? We are wonderous creatures, but we are so foolish and when enough of us finally wake up and decide we had better do something. It will be too late. One by one we will begin to die, like the bees, the elephants, the lions, a sweet little flamingo. Because we do not believe in the value of life. We fail to understand, all life is precious, all of it.