Let's get with the program.

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Ecosystem Earth as a whole is in a desperate struggle. Whether things are going to hell in a handbasket or entering a new age is beside the point. Something will survive, though we don't know what it will look like. Many things are dying, many being born.

The idea that we can completely control things is funny. We surf the changes as best we can, holding to our loved ones, accepting that we don't know the future only the direction we want to go. Only by accepting those things over which we have no power can we use what power we have to go in the direction of a better future.

The weather is going to get much more unstable. That's a given. Traditional weather patterns have been breaking down, and the pollutants already in the air - combined with the effects of all the other changes we humans have been making - will cause massive disruptions regardless of what we do now. The amount of carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere, for example, having already wrought huge changes in the ecosystem as a whole, is not going to disappear soon. In fact, there is a good chance that, with positive feedback effects such as from ocean acidification and the melting of formerly snow- or ice-covered areas - even were we humans somehow to completely stop emitting CO2 - it's concentration in the atmosphere may very well continue to rise.

We cannot assume we Americans will have enough food any more. We may be buried with fake food like soda pop and chips and cookies and other crap filled with sugar, salt, and chemicals. But fresh food not filled with synthetics? Ah, that's another thing. In a world both climatically and politically unstable, going back to much more locally grown food is necessary. But we also need the latest technology to preserve our present relatively high nutritional status. The trend to large mechanized food manufacturing systems is not going away; we need enclosed production facilities designed to handle the disruptions inevitable in a rapidly changing world.

The efficiency and types of energy needed to run our food system must be transformed. Rather than take the easy way out and say it's too late to save the planet, we can roll with the first rumblings of the new energy technologies coming on line. One is the GTECH Strategies biofuel project starting on the old mill site in Hazelwood. A few acres planted in mustard, sunflower, poplar, or switchgrass may not seem like much, but this is like a modern jet or magnetic levitation train that before you know it is traveling comfortably enormous speed.
Their website is http://gtechstrategies.com. Wholistic strategies such as this head toward getting us away from competition for fossil fuels and addiction to dangerous large nuclear power plants. They promise to reverse the trend toward more and more power in the hands of fewer and fewer people, while at the same time yielding more jobs and income for the local economy.





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Get with the program - saving Planet Earth

I remember many years ago talking about some really dramatically destructive developments in the world, finishing by saying something like, "There's going to be a revolution", to which I got the reply, "It's about time." I was taken aback by the reply because I wasn't describing peaceful change. Now, this many years later, I'm thinking that we have had the destruction but not the revolution. In spite of all the revolutionary new technologies, and all the talk among radicals about revolutionary social change, other than progres...what have we got now but the backward (almost de-volutionary) fear-based refusal to change even in spite of the the obvious dangers of remaining on the stuck-on-stupid status quo. It is as if we have given up or have been bitten by a snake and are hypnotized, merely waiting for the end.
We know the federal government is down for the count and has become an obstruction. We know we can't continue with our addiction to fossil fuels and the mammoth enemy targets called nuclear power plants. We know of many
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Love and justice are not seperate
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Since when did we humans get crowned top species?

Some microbes can live at above-boiling and below freezing temperatures.

Depending on who you speak to, we humans being are either better or worse than the other creatures in our world.

Some say we're better because we (supposedly) are the only ones who can think, feel, love, and work together to build a civilization. These people think that our brains are more advanced by far than other creatures, and so it's good that we've become the dominant species so that we can run things.
Some say we're the worst species, because we humans seem to be the only ones able to be sick enough to be brutal to each other for no reason, only killing for instance in order to survive while humans do all kinds of rotten things to other living things just for sheer sport.
We do seem to go to many places other creatures don't.

I think we homo sapiens are due for a fall. We're not that smart. The advantages we had were temporary. Look at what we're doing now; how smart is that? We're on a technological race to obliteration; "better" weapons fireable from space, more unemployment, computers and now robots taking over the jobs of humans, a government that will sell the most powerful technologies to just about whoever can get up the scratch (such as North Korea), military planners inventing "better" bugs (microbes more able to be used as weapons) for "research and defense" purposes (ignoring that neither the absolutely moral soldier or controllable microbe does not exist); taking down Earth's ecosystem piece by piece for very "practical" market reasons...the list goes on and on. Unless we manage to radically transform how we do things, war and/or disease and/or hunger and/or altered weather are going to kill off most of us. And that's the truth, plain and ugly.

But if, as a species, we manage to get off our high horse and open our minds and hearts to our fellow riders on the planet, maybe we've got a shot. We and all other living things are for the most part unknowingly dependent upon each other.

One of the most profound of wrong turns we apparently wiser humans took was that, rather than encourage the vast majority of microbes that are either directly or indirectly good for us, we so often have chosen to target the "bad" ones as enemies. Not realizing that, just as a gun kicks back as it's shot, there are inevitable backlashes when we kill living things. Our scientific arrogance has allowed us to

Oh, well let's get rid of them pesky cougars, and them raccoons are a pain in the ass too so we'll figger a way to get rid of them too, and the dang pigeons - they carry disease, so we'll put them in the same category as everybody else we want to designate as an enemy - possible disease carriers. Part of the rationale for the segregation of the Jews in the Holocaust was that they were suffering from so many diseases that they needed to be quarantined.
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