Clean air, unharmed animals, low gas prices, soldiers coming home, the end to nuclear threats; all things that we want without sacrificing a single thing. But those who have lived, however long or short, know that nothing can be gotten without some sacrifice on the part of many, willing or not.

To have clean air we need to stop destroying the natural ecosystems that prevent humans from inhabiting lands and stop using fossil fuels that emit greenhouse gases that stifle the air we need. For low gas prices we need a gargantuan source of oil and the only way to do that is to pry open the Earth and drain her dry from every reserve that can be found.

To end the need of stationing soldiers so far away from their homes is for the world to reach political peace (which every one knows will never happen as long as humanity is dominant). The only way to ensure the well-being of animals is to just eradicate the entire human race and allow them to return to their natural habitats (but this could never happen either because humans will become extinct much like the dinosaurs, in a massive explosion either organic or man-made).

Free Tibet,’ yes free Tibet, China and while you’re doing that, help free the rest of the world as well, then free yourself. Protest to your heart’s content, for while you believe the world has come to a standstill to view the spectacle of your free-speech exercise, the world continues around you. Political tensions continue across seas while people must watch others throw out seemingly simple solutions to all the world’s problems. But they never take into account of the complex situations that protesters seem to over look.

Yes! Let us pull out our troops, and begin offshore drilling immediately to lower gas prices! If only it were so easy to build new oiling rigs out at sea or on others’ properties and to refine the raw fuel with our economy so low. Yes! Let us threaten others with nuclear weapons to get rid of their nuclear weapons or better yet, let us get rid of our nuclear weapons and trust that everyone else will follow our example and do the same. If only it were that easy, to the dismay of those who wish it were otherwise.

Leave political matters to political minds, because those who only follow do not think of the overall consequence of actions. We take and take and take and rarely, if ever, giving back until we find ourselves at an undesirable time when our past actions affect us, when we find ourselves threatened; not by the world around us, but the world within us and United States.

We see China, where the sun is an orb without a corona through the dense pollution that kicks whatever pure air you can pull in out of your lungs. Our own economy, with many refraining from unnecessary driving may establish economizing as the new fad within the working class.

To have the world is to give a universe, because everything is worth much more than you would think.