I found this gem on ted.com, go visit it now if you haven't.

In the past couple of years, the average westerner has become aware that our lifestyle has raped some of the most diverse natural environments in the world. And we have slowly become aware, that in the process - we virtually steal these natural resources from the local people. Creating a poverty in our wake, that wasn't there before

every story is a little different

but regardless of who it is to blame, what we are left with are people living in abject poverty. and a dying eco system, that the people can no longer live off of. and then we have the problem of the population boom, which we have now linked to health. as health standards go down (poverty) people have more babies. as health standards go up, population levels off.

the situation has felt so hopeless. and has made an entire generation of kids feel that we, as a human race, are just a disease

rather than seeing the bigger picture here - how we are a part of nature. And how saving nature saves humanity. Or in a modern perspective, we can create an entire thriving economy on saving nature.

For many people, this is just an idea. But this man made it into a realization. On a scale of which I've never seen before!! Regrowing a rain forest? Saving a people from poverty? You've got to be kidding right?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vfuC...e=channel_page

Now that he's done this.............we have no more excuses!