World population, will be soon reaching 10 billion. By 2040 about 1 billion people could find difficulties getting food. This is the real world that you already watch on TV and the Internet. It seems that those initially not affected will not react. Our ingenuous believe that the Earth had endless resources -and some capacity to compensate pollution- is destroying the environment and its biodiversity, breaking ecological and food chains. We became not just the dominant species, but the one that could precipitate our own extinction. Genetically, our conscience and sense of time give us the impression that things happen slowly, we tend to survive rather than admitting the damage we produce, therefore we do not alter direction in time. The classical civilisation we built and enjoyed is ending into cyber extensions, mere parasite systems of our body and mind and as such, they started to affect our humanistic perception and reaction, of biological nature. This includes our emotional response to life itself, based on education, reasoning and morality, which are of culural nature. What we understand as Western Civilization was defined and described by the great Aristotle 1.300 years ago in his amazing 'Politics'. Keeping his discernments alive will help us to establish a re-balanced reality. We cannot stop the effects of Habitat Loss: the Earth will absorb it and react in different ways. We will have to adapt to our new scenario, which could well be an unimaginable one. If you doubt it, fly over Dubai at night and compare it with the oberture opening sequence of Ridley Scott's Blade Runner. The Tyrell Corporation's nightmare is here. Massive migrations existed since ever; the current ones are related to overpopulation of pre-historical and agrarian societies and their collective memories, wars and poverty. But it is not all: Habitat Change is visible in the Middle East, Central America and parts of Asia. In some places there is simply not enough food in societies with little or no industrialisation. Climate has little to do. . (page 4 of 5)

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