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Each nation stands alone to decide if they want the same pollutions and confusions in their society that the "advanced industrialized countries" have. The advanced nations did not know where their technologies and more modern ways would lead them. If they now were the underdeveloped country seeing and knowing the pollutions, energy crisis, global warming fears, disease, border conflicts, trade wars, bondage of taxes and monthly expenses, family separations and stress, would they have said, "That sounds like a good idea!"? It is not likely, if they had another choice.

The industrialized nations now stand at the same door of decision. Knowing what they now know, would they want more of the pollutions and confusions for the future? It is not likely, if they had another choice.

Jesus, who is called Isa in the Qur'an, spoke to groups of people in the Bible; to one he said " you say, I am rich and increased with goods, and have need of nothing and know not that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:" Revelation 3:17

To another group he said, "I know your works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but you are rich) " Revelation 2:9

There is another choice. The goal of life is not employment where you need industry, manufacturing, processing and transporting necessary and unnecessary things just to keep people employed to give them money to pay for their "developed lifestyle."

The goal of life is retirement with your family nearby, all living in the garden paradise you created by growing fruit and nut trees and vegetables for healthy bodies. Your sheep or goat provides milk and the chickens provide eggs as well as enjoyment and activity for the children. It is a place where a weary traveler can pick fruit from the trees and know he will not be hungry and where it is easy to care for those in need whether they be family or strangers. This was the rich poverty that Jesus saw. It is the industrialized nations that don't know the riches. They think they are rich.

Now, the industrialized nations stand at the same door of decision that the underdeveloped nations stand at. Will they continue to go toward the pollutions, confusions and stress of their "developed lifestyle" now that they know they have a choice?

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