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I can't save the planet, from all of its problems working together you could overcome suffering Working together you could save together creating wealth for yourself and employment for others Between Brothers, Sisters, Cousins, and Aunts extended families could have one hundred people every church congregation could have over one hundred people one hundred people saving ten dollars per week Is one thousand dollars per week fifty-two thousand dollars per year the deposit for a house every year after ten years you could sell the houses to create companies, creating employment We sold our house for six hundred and forty-five thousand dollars we could have brought a hotel you could save as families you could invest in hotels or any business you could train your children to be electricians the first girl I loved, married her childhood sweetheart He trained up to be an electrician created a company and had twelve people working for him working together as families you could copy him You could create wealth for yourselves employment for your family and your community you could decide, to have fewer children In 1804 the world's population reached its first billion people by 1927 we reached two billion people now we have reached 7.9 billion people how many people, can the world's ecology sustain Our oceans are depleted of fish we cut down fifty-eight football fields of raintree forest every day drift net fishing is used to feed people Timber and furniture for housing you could decide to save and invest together creating employment for the unemployed in Africa, children die from starvation-related causes you could create employment for their parents fair wages for a fair day's work parents with money can feed their starving child reducing population growth could create sustainable systems you could decide not to have wars you could decide to live in peace you could change the world you could decide to create respect for each other one person can't change the world but you could you could decide to be nice to each other one moment of kindness can improve somebody's day you could decide to give up on racist ideas all people white black and yellow have made mistakes we can continue building hatred or we could respect each other as friends children don't see racism let's follow the child into a world of peace every day you create the life you live with the choices you make you could make better choices

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