Planet Earth is a living, breathing, biological entity whose ecological environments are held together in delicate balance. While it remains in this balance, healthy and alive, it supports an incredible variety of life forms among which is the human species.

Humans arrogantly believe they are the superior planetary species. Yet despite the obvious overpopulation of humanity on Earth, and the millions of people starving to death every year for lack of food, some never in a lifetime knowing a full belly, humans continue to breed like rabbits.

Americans irresponsibly contribute not only to the swelling human populations, but stupidly allow their corporations to lead the way in the mismanagement of the planet's life-providing resources.

With their reckless cutting of moisture absorbing rain forests, massive gouging of nonrenewable minerals from the bowels of the Earth, pollution of ocean waters, destruction of many fragile marine environments and wetlands that normally filter pesticides and urban sewage from the oceans, and their obliteration of seemingly inconsequential life forms, "businessmen" destroy the planet's delicate life sustaining balance.

And the masses of, presumably, superior ordinary American citizens, with their, presumably, superior brains, sit by and do nothing about the rape of planet Earth by wealthy Americans and their political puppets.

Together, corporations and the economic system called "capitalism" that supports them, appear to be a magic flower that improves human life with its material benefits. In reality, however, the selfish and callous misuse of the combination produces a deadly fungus that oozes across the globe leaving behind environmental devastation, massive waste of natural resources, physical and emotional illness, and unimaginable human suffering.

Consequently, Earth is no longer the fabulously resource-rich planet it was, even one hundred years ago. But of even more importance, the pollution and massive deterioration of the ocean's health, combined with the injury to the atmospheric shield, has progressed far enough to change the planet's weather patterns, seriously threatening the continuation of life on Earth.

Yet Americans, who hold the power to change this deadly situation do nothing but talk. National leaders don't care to solve the problems. They offer nothing but talk and doubletalk, while they continue to steal and squander the national wealth.

The Republican party doesn't care, for it is the political representative of the nation's wealth and, therefore, of the nation's rich and powerful corporations. Republicans merely seek less radical leadership, more tax benefits, and more reductions in federal social programs.

The opposition Democratic party doesn't care, for it is filled mostly with cheap opportunists, more concerned with their lucrative jobs than in solving the problems of the people who elected them to solve their problems. Democrats merely seek a more dynamic person to lead their party to victory in the next presidential election; one dedicated to the traditional goals of the party.

Ordinary American citizens don't care, at least, not enough to do what must be done to save their lives and the lives of their children.

All of this uncaring is made possible by the American System created by the Constitution of the United States, which was written by wealthy Americans to benefit wealthy Americans.

Naturally, the document gives wealthy American citizens political power, denying ordinary working citizens the opportunity to influence the values and laws of their country. The consequences of this arrangement is that it has allowed wealthy Americans to grasp for themselves many economic opportunities that should have belonged to the collective public.

These few truths should be enough for reasoning Americans to reject the biased two-party political system and give priority to developing another, fairer, political system. Strangely enough, although there is, within the masses, great discontent with the political system and much anger with the current federal Administration, most Americans shy away from even talking about changing the System.

What does this mean? Well, it might mean the American masses are incapable of thinking about important and complicated problems, or it may be they are too lazy to think about such things, or perhaps, they are too timid to take the necessary actions, which may be why there are so few public discussions about change? It could be a number of reasons. The bottom line, however, is that the U.S. is going to hell in a hand basket and no one in authority is taking positive actions to stop it and to turn things around.