Anne and Charles Mac Arthur, married for 48 years and 2 days, spent their together life as practicing ProActive Energy Minimalists , watching in increasing alarm as world population grew from two billion to six billion people, all within a single lifetime. The rate at which we are consuming our resources will not allow us to continue to expand mindlessly. A population which can triple in a single lifetime can also collapse just as quickly, or perhaps even more suddenly. Even more dangerous than the Y2K threat is a severe energy shortage only a dozen years away, between 2012 and 2014, to be brought on in part by the closure of 33 U. S. nuclear electric generation stations during a single 36 month period. If we are to survive our own greed, we ought to rediscover Altruism and find myriad ways in which we can decentralize our "selfish, wealth through cleverness and without sweat, what's in it for me? Centralist gashog dependent, restless, grossly egocentric, WalMart/RiteAid" Society." Watch out!