Very interesting. Maybe this is nature's way of getting rid of her biggest threat to her creation.

Well, Joe, the macho, kick-ass, materialistic, shallow males we have so many of now running the world certainly hasn't worked - quite the opposite. Perpetual wars for continuous profits is the problem - grass-eating boys could be the solution.

I think this is a reaction to the empty materialism of unregulated, free market capitalism that has nearly destroyed the economies of the world. Spending your life working to enrich a corporation and to have more "things", until too late you realize your whole life has been wasted and those things that really matter - enlightenment, travel, enjoyment of each of life's moments, relationships (not the empty, predatory, sexual types) - have been lost and the world is not a better place because you've been here is a sad ending. And the environment can no longer sustain that material kind of life so let's hope this movement spreads if for no other reason than for our survival and that of other life forms and the planet itself. We've found this kind of life in leaving the US and living in less materialistic Spain and wouldn't go back for anything!