the world is in a plunge

My home country is in a recession and lots of people haven't got a job. There have been riots in London, Birmingham and Manchester this month. The cost of living right now is very high. There is a big worry about global warming. Look at history and life has not been rosy all the time. I hate war happening because people get killed. I would like to see world peace happening but this is unlikely. I would like to still enjoy like by walking in the countryside and by the sea. I am keen on reading books and writing stories. I love my two pet dogs and they delight me. I enjoy caring for my three kids. I have a 16 year old son, a 4 year old disabled son and a 2 year old daughter. My top hobby is traveling to different countries. I can happily remember my trips that happened in the past. I need to decide where I will go in 2012. I will be combing a week of term time with a week or more of the school holidays.

All these things...poor economies, wars, droughts, rising cost of living, riots etc. etc. have been continuously happening - some since time began and some since the world became capitalised and industrialised. I had a peep at your profile to see your age, and note that you are of the age when we begin to notice and think about things like that. As far as being punished by nature is concerned, I think we have destroyed our planet to a degree whereby it seems as if it's giving us greater and more destructive spells of weather across the globe in more recent years and although I don't think of nature as a force that can think and decide to punish, I believe we are now going through the consequences of past mis-use of our planet in the sense that although at the time we probably didn't intend to, we changed the eco-structure to work against us rather than for or with us.