Does Money Matter? Mario Draghi - Who Should Be TIME's Person of the Year 2012? - TIME

Mario Draghi - Who Should Be TIME's Person of the Year 2012? - TIME: "Henry Kissinger famously (and apocryphally) once asked, "Who do I call if I want to speak to Europe?" Today, the answer is Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank, whose influence on the euro's survival makes him Europe's most powerful person. Since becoming ECB chief in late 2011, the 65-year-old Draghi has aided troubled euro-zone banks with $1.3 billion in ultra-cheap loans and has overseen a massive bond-purchasing plan for debt-groggy countries under market attack. Now he's preparing unified supervision of all euro-zone banks. If the currency survives as a result, the entire world will call Draghi with its thanks."

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Raymond Kurzweil and a Vision of Living Forever - Nature and Community - MOTHER EARTH NEWS

This article was in the October/November 2012 issue of Mother Earth News.

Raymond Kurzweil and a Vision of Living Forever - Nature and Community - MOTHER EARTH NEWS

People is the current problem and will remain so into the future.  We've just got too many damn people on the planet.  Even if the scientific estimate of a maximum sustainable population on the planet of 15 billion, I think we can see that the current 7 billion we have is enough.

Our governmental, food, distribution, energy, systems are all under huge strain as the population continues to grow.  We had all better hope for a global calamity to get the population back to a sustainable level.