Population studies experts predict that our planet's population will reach equilibrium in the first half of this century, and then begin a sharp decline. All of earth's human inhabitants could fit into the country of France with 1000 square feet (100 square meters) of living space for each man, woman and child. Some countries are already noticing they don't have enough people to run their factories. The earth can easily support 10 times its present population on a diet that includes meat, and 10-25 its current population on a meatless diet.

Srila Prabhupada is reputed to have said "Work now, samadhi later." Although this phrase is not to be found within the Bhaktivedanta Database, the idea is that devotional service is to be part of our lives and that we are to be ghostianandies, not bhajananandies.
Some may argue that Rupa and Sanatana Goswami were bhajananandies, living in caves, beneath sacred trees, near holy lakes and rivers, at hallowed shrines, aloof from the general public. But what was their purpose?

This phenomenon is something that materialists would like to put on the back burner. Yet thousands have already been displaced and dispossessed due to flooding from global warming.
As we wrote in the 1998 edition of DIVINE NATURE, "United Nations studies show that a warming climate could raise sea levels, which are already rising, by 1.5 to 6.5 feet over the next century. If sea levels rise 3 feet, this could submerge 1 million square miles of lowlands. These lowlands are inhabited by one billion people and include one third of the world's cropland"
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