The best way to predict the future is to create it

Although I am often in the present and thouroughly enjoying the pleasntness of our seemingly peaceful lives, I often feel disguted that we may enjoy ourselves at the expense of a thousand other nations and millions of other people. My culture's destructive. And this disregard for responsible consumption and production is somehow a legitmized normalcy of consumer behavior. This is really sickening and to drive the stake in the ground, really normal. I am not blaming the masses for NOT knowing how food, clothing and goods are produced and transported, knowing the child labor used in the garment industry and massive water use, the erosion and desertified soil created by our agriculture, the fossil fuel "wars" that have begun our natural resource hoarding games.....only just scratching the service, with our meat industry, our outsourced labor force, our unsustainable single family home and car addictions.....but I believe the education is lacking. We are presented with big ideas and techonlogies everyday and the within this rapid stimuli environment, most are unable to sort out the facts from the biases and the truths from the lies. And I don't blame them, but it is time to slow down and understand how the pieces of this live fort together. Where are the connections and the disconnect? What is the consequence? There is always a consequence. We are not seperate from our actions. In my understanding of everyday life, a past precedes the present and a future is created by the past and present. Our destructive culture of consumption runs so deep and at times I feel suffocated by the overwhelming complacentcy of accepting this 'dominion over.' But I will not let it all weigh me down, the disease, the corporate greed. The knowledge of what is in the world today must not be dibilitating. It must be motivating. Because the best way to predict the future is to create it.