If you are under 30 you can expect to live in a much different world by the time your kids are ready for college.  The Earth’s population will have just about doubled by then and climate change and the energy crisis will no longer be something you read about, but have to live with every day.  If certain people and organizations get their way you will be under constant surveillance by the government and private security companies and will have lost many of your rights and civil liberties.

Most of you know this and sense that your parents are not doing what is necessary to protect your future so you can have the same opportunities they have enjoyed.  Many of you are outraged – and you should be.  How could the baby boomer generation take such advantage of our resources and leave nothing for you?

Before you decide to condemn everyone over 50 let’s first take a look at what they did accomplish when they were your age.  Coming into the 60’s the US had some serious civil rights problems, and we had almost no awareness of how our lifestyles might harm the environment.  By the mid-60’s the US was fully engaged in a bloody civil war being fought in Vietnam and Cambodia.  The baby boomers were outraged.  They took to the streets and began a series of mostly peaceful protests that got the attention of the Establishment and Government.  By the time these kids were in their 30’s and having children of their own they had managed to initiate great social change that made our world a better place.

Problem:  In many third world counties a high percentage of infants die before they are one month old.

Solution:  In many of these culture women do not breastfeed immediately after the baby is born.  Breastfeeding within an hour of birth dramatically reduces infant mortality.

Breast Milk Is Key Weapon in Fight to Lower Africa's Child Mortality Rate
By Andy McSmith
The Independent UK

The lives of a million babies could be saved every year by the simplest and most natural remedy of them all - breast-feeding.

Field workers running a research project in remote Ghanaian villages have discovered that the surest way to keep a baby alive is for the mother to start breastfeeding within an hour of the baby being born. If the first feed from the mother's breast is delayed for even one day, they found the risk of the child dying within a month more than doubles. Early introduction to animal milk or any other substitute for mother's milk pushed the child's chance of living for a month down to barely one in 10.