Contribute: to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes. The vast majority of us have to engage in some effort or work to maintain ourselves and any direct family or associates. When you think about it, although this is not normally considered a contribution, where would we be without the mass of humanity working to maintain themselves? Simply by maintaining yourself you are contributing to the human family. In my lifetime, since 1950, the global population has tripled. That level of increase is unprecedented in human history and has no doubt put extraordinary pressure on our governments to keep up with the required infrastructure. Scale has its pros and cons. The powers that be have the immense responsibility of acquiring the resources to keep the populace satisfied and productive. Growing at this level has exacerbated those needs. From our position, it becomes increasingly difficult to perceive exactly what and why things are happening as they are, but generally, if you look at things from a macro scale it will make more sense. The basis of most wars is over access to natural resources and their development. In the United States the per capita total raw material use (excluding food and fuel) grew 3.17 times faster than the population between 1910 and 2020, reaching roughly 23.5 metric tons per person annually by 2022. This tripling of our own individual consumption of natural resources has obviously put extreme pressure on every aspect of life. At the same time, our ability to have free time and experience life and share our own values has grown dramatically. In 1900, the average workweek was approximately 60 hours which was reduced to between 34-40 hours in 2020, driven by labor legislation, industrial shifts, and economic growth. Our planet is a collection of almost 200 sovereign countries and the more we can recognize our mutual needs and resolve them peacefully, the better off we will be…