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Are You an Owner or a Trespasser?

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In the world today, North America and Europe are like the Owner in the joke. The rest of the world is the Trespasser. We Owners have laid claim to a huge portion of the world's resources to support our consumption driven economy. We have assumed heretofore that our possession of those resources is rightful and just.

But the trespassers also want the wealth and prosperity we have acquired, and it will take about two and a half planet earths to satisfy that want. So an increasing number of Trespassers are going to want to fight us for the one planet we share. At last count Trespassers outnumber Owners more than 6 to 1.

So tell me again, what was it that you think you own? Where did you get it?

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Richmond Shreve is a retired business executive whose careers began in electronics (USN) and broadcasting in the 1960s. Over the years he has maintained a hobby interest in amateur radio, and the audio-visual arts while working in sales and (more...)
 

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