Question6.com: We, The People are NOT HAPPY
7 - Global warming
Planet Earth is more than a stack of raw materials.
You would think from the comments of the media that the climate of the earth is in the hands of the Homo sapiens. They assume that we are surrounded by matter. Planet Earth is a machine, and we are at the helm. We have at our disposal a mountain of raw materials. We use the law of cause and effect to decide the future. We are the owners of planet Earth, and we can use it as we please. The governments of the world are going to implement their own human solutions.
That could be all wrong. We are not surrounded by ‘matter’. We are surrounded by ‘life’. Every week we are told of floods, earthquakes, forest fires, volcanos in eruption, tsunamis, pandemics… How can we pretend that the climate of the earth is under the control of the Homo sapiens?
When there is too much prey, Nature increases the number of predators until the predators die of starvation, and everybody gets back in line.
When there is too much prey, Nature increases the number of predators until the predators die of starvation, and everybody gets back in line.
Our problem is: How is Nature going to handle the human extravaganza?
Mother Nature could reduce our reliance on machines: She could deplete the sources of energy that our machines use. The main one is oil.
- Mother Nature could reduce the food available. Our skeleton must be replaced four times a year. That requires a lot of calcium in our food and our food comes from plants. We could find that our soil can be depleted like the oil fields.
- Nature could also use the animal kingdom. It is alive and very efficient. It harbors a reserve of viruses, microbes, bacteria, and numerous small creatures, all of which are ready to be transferred to humans. We rely on bees to pollinate approximately 80% of our food. We are already killing them by the millions with our pesticides. We must transport them by truck across the country to place them where they are most needed.
Humans are to the Earth what a cell is to the human body. Nothing less but nothing more.
You will notice that Nature does not differentiate between countries, races, religions, or political ideologies. She goes to the source of the problem and removes its cause.
We are already seeing a noticeable decrease in the population of Germany, China, Japan, and South Korea. That could be a sign that Nature opted for the gentle solution. She is not going to change the place of the poles! She has done it before. She could do it again.
Nothing is sure.
Many things can happen in the next two centuries. Most of us could move to another planet.
So far, we have our sun-growing plants, and we eat the plants. We may find a way to bypass the plants and get our nutrition directly from our sun. We know that some vitamins can only be produced when the sun's effect is applied to our skin. There could be something there that future generations want to investigate.
We must learn to think as a species instead of thinking as separate individuals.
- One birth every 8 seconds
- One death every 11 seconds
- We have a net gain of one person every 35 seconds.
You don’t have to be an expert to see that this is not a normal “evolution” of mankind. It is a disruption. Many scientists agree that if everyone becomes vegetarian, the present 1.4 billion hectares of arable land (3.5 billion acres) would support about 10 billion people. It would be significantly less for meat-eaters.