...in rather dramatic ways.

I am assuming that a good leader will be unpopular to some degree. Because not everyone will ever agree on which way is the right way. In other words, it's impossible to satisfy everyone. Also, there are more and more people to try to satisfy. Thought I heard the other day that the world population has doubled since 1966. Could that be true? Makes me wonder if we are becoming over-populated. I know that China has tried to put a cap on the size of families. Seems like a sensible thing to do. I know that takes away some individual freedoms. But hey, it's a different world. Could be we reach a point where there's too many of us around. In which case, we've got to work harder for the common good. Otherwise, we'll be stepping on each other. Running out of space and natural resources. As it is, we have thousands of people starving to death every day. While some of us are over-eating and getting fatter and fatter. Taking up more space. And maybe the global economy has gone into the tank because we haven't yet learned how to share the wealth -- to distribute it for the sake of the common good. From the beginning of time, we've had sort of a everyone-for-himself mentality. Oh, we formed families and tribes and nations to protect our common interests, I suppose. But we haven't applied such a principle on a global basis. So, little wonder that we live in an era of great conflict. Like I said, we need leaders now that address the issue of living on Earth at a time when the population doubles in 42 years. Yes, we need to change our thinking in rather dramatic ways. --Jim Broede