Think about it.

Think about how oil is a finite resource that will someday be either so dry, or close enough to dry, that entire continents may be going to war with one another over it. Think about how we may have already started down that path. Think about how many petroleum based products you have around your desk. Think about how you got to work today. Think about your house in relation to the necessities of your daily life. Where you work. Where you're planning your vacation. What you store your leftovers in. Think about the car you drive. Think about the two Chief Executives of this country. Think about how much oil is predicted to be left in the world in a matter of 10 short years.

Think about fresh water and how many predict it to be another one of those resources like oil that countries may come to conflict over. Think about how many people in the know say that the water shortage crisis may have more impact than the oil crisis. Think about how it already IS a crisis to hundreds of millions of people around the world.

Think about the amount of meat consumed on a daily basis. Think about how much pollutants those cows create. Think about the number one killer in our country being preventable diseases caused by unhealthy diets. Think about that cheeseburger I just ate for lunch, not because I HAD to, but because I WANTED to. Think about that veggie sandwich that would have filled up my stomach, instead of my arteries around my heart. Think about the mercury in the tuna and how experts recommend eating tuna no more than once a week? Think about people injecting salmon with pink dye to give it a more natural look. Think about the hormones injected into chickens and cows to produce better "produce." Think about how billions of people in this world who live in abject poverty, and how we could feed every single one of them if we chose to do so.

Think about the population boom that continues to happen. 6 BILLION plus people with thousands more being born everyday. Think about how many of BILLIONS of people live in totally shitty conditions. Think about the huge gap that exists between those in abject poverty around the world, and those who have the necessary funds to take trips to Disney World if they should so choose. Think about the relatively few people in the world that make important life or death decisions on an hourly basis. Questions like, Who gets this funding? Who gets that funding? Who gets bombed? Who gets sanctions? Who gets support? Who gets support withdrawn? Think about the relatively few number of people who are engineering and manipulating this whole global economy and global system with relatively little decision about how it impacts world citizen number 4,848,240,200.

Think about any dead 19 year old United States soldier killed in Iraq, and then think about the 19 year old Iraqi who shot him. Think about the 19 year old kid sitting at home right now who isn't going to vote this year. Think about the 19 year old kid who is going to vote, but will have his vote discarded because of the color of his skin. Think about the 19 year old kid who's going to vote this year, but won't feel as if his vote changed anything. Think about the 19 year old kid who's working in a sweatshop in Malaysia, for a 19 year old kid who likes the Gap. Think about the 19 year old jihadist who's planning to blow up a 19 year old Israeli because years ago, a 19 year old Israeli tank purchased with US money, killed his 19 year old brother. Think of the 19 year old right now who's reading this and is thinking that this is the worst piece of liberal propaganda he's ever read in his 19 years on this planet. And then think about how all of these 19 year olds are connected through a system that none of them can see, and have no control over.

"In the final analysis the rich must not ignore the poor because both rich and poor are tied together in a single garment of destiny. All life is interrelated, and all men are interdependent. The agony of the poor diminishes the rich, and the salvation of the poor enlarges the rich. We are inevitably our brother's keeper because of the interrelated structure of reality."

-Dr. Martin Luther King jr