The Next Generation #297 By Hank Silverberg You will notice in the upper right hand corner of this blog the number 297. That's approximately how many blogs I have done in the last few years. It is in fact many more, because I failed to number the first dozen or so I wrote. Of all those, this is the one I find difficult to write. Regular readers know I have two children and two grandchildren, and as I approach my 7th decade of life I have seriously begun to think about what the world will be like when my six-year-old grandson reaches 70 years of age. Climate change, dwindling resources, including fossil fuel and water, and the constant inability of the human race to live in peace among nations all clog my mind about the future. The Baby Boomer generation of the 50's and 60's in the last century grew up with these same worries, but in the end we went to school, got jobs and had children. As we rais...