Mothers stay home and raise children; fathers leave home and raise hell. Perhaps this is what the worst-case scenario of our developmental policies look like as we approach the year 2012, the year ancient the ancient scriptures of the Mayan Civilization said the world is going to end.

That's only 4 years from now!

Nostradamus had a different date. Each and every religion has a different idea of when and how Armageddon will come.

This is what the world has faced with the essential tension between nature and technology, between care and chaos, and between the need to preserve the environment and the urge to destroy it.

We do not know when the earth is going to self-destruct but we know that we must do something about our immediate environment. We must do it with political will.