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THE HERALD Wednesday September It MM Page Mankind must become caretaker of the planet Out on the runway It was a warm almost tropical morning The plane rose steeply into a very blue sky and proceeded to climb to more than 30 feet A monitor not far from where I was sitting reported the changing outside temperature The higher the plane went the more the temperature outside our comfortable cocoon dropped Eventually the monitor reported a bone chilling temperature of 50C below zero Nothing else could have demonstrated as starkly how frail the foundation is on which all life on this planet is based Take away the thin layer of atmosphere that surrounds the globe take away the mantle of that the inven of mankind have created for us and life will end so quickly that not even a short prayer might be finished in those last remaining moments mankind did not know that Our early ancestors were convinced that the creator had blessed them with abundance surrounded as they were by the plentiful beasts that populated this earth at the dawn of history That later our ancestors had to settle down and till the soil for their sustenance was already a sign of want of Impoverishment The wilderness did not provide enough anymore for the large and ever increasing bands that roamed the continents Now men and women and children had to work for a living Much later came what we call the great civilizations with their endless wars and not much more but hunger and starvation for the majority of the poor slaves that filled the proud cities of the ancient rulers Religions gave some com fort to these wretches by them an after life of beauty and bliss Not much changed in the human condition between the reign of at Rome and the reign of e Sun King at Versailles The few who were rich and powerful erected fabulous monuments to themselves and the poor were told that their poverty was Gods will But then around the year 1500 true research started to look into the ways nature works and the fin dings of men like Copernicus Galileo and Newton in time defeated the old notions of cause and effect With the knowledge gained through scientific in vestigation it became to invent machines that had the power to exploit the planet like it had never been done before The result was an industrial revolution that started it phant march around the world in 1760 As at the time when our ancestors had to become farmers this revolution was born of need The world population had grown so alarmingly in spite of war and pestilence that people looked to the future with apprehension and despair At first only a very few people benefitted from the material wealth created by industrialization but soon the working masses demanded their share and they continue to demand it through strikes and negotiations Today there are countries in Europe and North America and Asia that are so wealthy that it staggers the agination On the other hand great portions of the world are in a permanent September meeting spiced with humor The September meeting of the Terra Cotta Women Institute was held at the home of June with the president Linda Dowds opening the meeting with ar autumn poem The roll call Bring a product and compose a commercial to sell it provided much humour for the 13 members present Plans for hosting the Peel North District annual meeting on May were discussed There will be training schools on Landscaping and Bread Baking for those interested Program material is available from the department Members were asked for input regarding the phasing out of the Home and Country magazine Dorothy Cook was honored for her two years of faithful service and appreciation which was ex pressed by Mary MacDonald as she presented her with a Life Membership Current events were read by Catherine Leslie and June provided much appreciated organ music Margaret McKane gave a talk on Nutrition Canada s Food Guide and sensible eating for good health A Food Festival matchup contest conducted by Eleanor MacDonald was won by Barbara McKane and Linda John Sommer crisis because and want And privilege to live countries have of over population we who have the in one of the many goods that we throw them away The garbage dumps we fight so much about are in reality burial sites for treasures we have become tired of Many of us have forgotten that food has to be grown and that the sprawling subdivision we live in has been snatched from the diminishing arsenal of good farmland or from wilderness areas both needed to feed us and to ensure the balance of nature without which life will come to an end We have brains that enable us to reason After the agricultural revolution that has turned us into farmers and the revolu that has turned us into con sumers it is now the time for a cerebral revolution that should turn us into the caretakers of this planet for our own good At this stage in our history it is paramount to anything else that we preserve the purity of the air the water and the soil We can only find out how to do that if we honest ly talk to each other and listen to each other and poo our ideas If we want to survive and not walk in to extinction blindly we have to tackle a problem that has bedevil ed us since we had to switch to far ming This problem is how to feed a growing population on a plant of limited size and an ecosystem that can stand only so much abuse Saturday September 22 1990 FREE OPEN HOUSE TASTING PARTY J v Come Celebrate With Us At Our OPEN HOUSE TASTING PARTY September 22nd to 5 Bring a trend or relative and join the party Simple Flee and on for a rerun food at Our client Cathy iyle OVER 1 700 CENTRES WORLDWIDE weight loss centres ONE DAY ONLY Save 75 Call Today For A FREE NoObligation Consultation GEORGETOWN ORANGEVILLE PlA BROADWAY Hew dents Offer September