Most people are aware that life at the moment is no longer what they expected as many changes have taken place in society and all over the planet, which most of us never expected. More changes will soon begin to emerge due to global warming and climate change. These changes are expected to begin to emerge by 2010.

It is of utmost importance to understand that based on the current state affairs with the planet, there may for many people soon no longer be a future with sustainable living conditions. Time is running out to make adequate lifestyle changes to protect the remaining ecological structures.

While awareness about the state of the planet has grown enormously and there is more will among people to make sustainable changes to help the environment, not enough change is happening to change this process of unsustainable growth within humanity.

Lifestyle is one of the major issues humanity will have to face, to reverse a process of living, which cannot adequately sustain humanity in the near future. People will have to become more actively involved in making the necessary, mainly lifestyle, changes for the benefit of their own future and for that of the next generations. They will need to find ways to reverse the current trends of ecological and environmental damage that is happening all over the world, and is still on the increase.

Most of humanity has not been aware and is inactive about a situation, which has the potential of becoming an enormous looming disaster. This disaster can only narrowly be averted if people on all continents will come to the fore and begin to carry out lifestyle changes where they can. Global warming and climate change can no longer be denied.

Those in power and those that are in an educational role are in particular in a privileged position to be the first ones to participate in these changes. Although governance and implementation of plans to support the environment are of major importance, every individual will have to come to the fore to make adequate changes and reduce their impact on the environment.

There are no simple solutions nor can change happen all at once. No single individual has all the answers or solutions for the planet's problems, the immensity of which is beyond most people's daily outlook of life. Most people would agree, however, that the future outlook is not good, given the rate at which global warming is increasing and given the already known facts, which are showing how much the planet's ecology has been damaged.

Climate change has already begun. Evidence of this can be found in many places. It is important to better understand what this global rise in temperature will mean for the planet's overall future. By having a better understanding what the future will hold people are more likely to have the will to make changes.

For most people currently alive, the time will come that climate problems will become more severe than has been anticipated. This may result in food scarcity in many places as well as many other issues resulting from extreme weather changes.