Ultimate Solution To Save Our Planet

Gioietta Kuo

Senior Fellow, American Center for International Policy Studies, amcips.org

may 31 2009

Almost all of us have a long wish list of how to solve the most urgent problems facing the world today. Starting with global warming, how do we grow forests, preserve water, energy and the list goes on. At the end of many articles on “how to save our civilization”, one invariably come to the final solution which comes down to limiting the world’s population. But how? Sex and reproduction seem to be inherent drives in the human existence.

Indeed, if one were to go through the chain of all the ills confronting the world today, one cannot but conclude that over population is the mother of all evils. Say if the population were to be reduced miraculously by even 10%, how many problems would simply vanish overnight.

It is befitting, therefore, that China, (more…)

By Marc Prensky
From On the Horizon (MCB University Press, Vol. 9 No. 5, October 2001)
© 2001 Marc Prensky
It is amazing to me how in all the hoopla and debate these days about the decline of education in the US we ignore the most fundamental of its causes. Our students have changed radically. Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach.
Today‟s students have not just changed incrementally from those of the past, nor simply changed their slang, clothes, body adornments, or styles, as has happened between generations previously. A really big discontinuity has taken place. One might even call it a “singularity” – an event which changes things so fundamentally that there is absolutely no going back. This so-called “singularity” is the arrival and rapid dissemination of digital technology in the last decades of the 20th century.
Today‟s students – K through college – represent the first generations to grow up with this new technology. They have spent their entire lives surrounded (more…)