Kayla Delaguila: outside reading

So I am reading this book, “Global Issues" by Michael Snarr for my government class, he wants us to catch up on about 20 years of modern politics. Anyway, I was reading all these stats about how the world is growing, including that over 200,000 people are added to the world's totally population every day. What? Does anyone else not believe this? I know it's true because it's cited by the census, but goodness. With that many people in the world how are we ever going to find the space to sit and have our sacred place find us as Lane would say. There was this stat about how in the 90s more children died from diarrhea than all the people who died due to armed conflict since WWII. Makes you re-think all the complaining we do about health care in the United States. Lane talked about, and I'm speaking from my perspective of what he said, how in America we seem to under appreciate nature and the sacred places that it has given us. We don't want to wait for a sacred place to find us; we would rather make a fake sacred place in Disney Land. A little cynical? Maybe. But how can Americans sit and take all that we have for granted day after day, from our health care system to the simple beauty of the quiet nature? Is there something we can do to help the world and leave our little North American shell? This is what I get for reading a book about sacred lands and a government book at the same time... I bet you couldn't guess if I'm Democratic or Republican.