Really powerful summary of truth and consequences for human expansion. The problems we humans have created will be put back in balance by natural cycles: whatever the laws and timelines demand. We humans are not psychologically engineered (by nature) to deliberately limit ourselves. Our physiology demands the quest, supports the explorer, promotes the expedition to expanding futures. I can’t see that a deliberate social movement of retreating to a drastically lower human population will ever get popular traction politically or culturally—with the one exception of pain and sacrifice as an aspect of human-on-human war. We are engineered by our very existence for conflict. The natural course correction from where we are today seems likely to involve accelerating global boiling, vast areas of climatic rearrangement, powerful and dramatic storms, and civilizational collapse punctuated with human-on-human conflict. Whatever comes out the other side will become the next era of life on Earth. Humans may or may not be part of that paradigm.
I feel sorry for the human species... we have been burdened with this thing we refer to as 'intelligence'... we celebrated the harnessing of fire that allowed us to cook and eat a wider range of foods... that allowed us to expand into colder parts of the planet ...
Then we used the big brains to work out how to farm - hurrah - more people!!!
Haber Bosch were hailed as heroes -- more people!!!
See any parallels to humans today? At least in some circles in some parts of the world perhaps? It's almost like Gaia is trying to tell us something....
Now go a step farther... if you were running the show ... and you realized that we were about to hit a tipping point on resources where the global economy was guaranteed to collapse... supply chains implode -- lights go out - supermarkets go empty...
And 8 billion humans flooded onto the dark streets -- hungry ... angry ... and looking to skin you alive...
Conspiracy theories present entertainment for the “intelligent ape” that is humankind’s self image. But as we entertain ourselves thinking that we have agency to run the show Nature will just rewrite the script of life. Time is the superpower of natural law.
Thank you B🙏
Really powerful summary of truth and consequences for human expansion. The problems we humans have created will be put back in balance by natural cycles: whatever the laws and timelines demand. We humans are not psychologically engineered (by nature) to deliberately limit ourselves. Our physiology demands the quest, supports the explorer, promotes the expedition to expanding futures. I can’t see that a deliberate social movement of retreating to a drastically lower human population will ever get popular traction politically or culturally—with the one exception of pain and sacrifice as an aspect of human-on-human war. We are engineered by our very existence for conflict. The natural course correction from where we are today seems likely to involve accelerating global boiling, vast areas of climatic rearrangement, powerful and dramatic storms, and civilizational collapse punctuated with human-on-human conflict. Whatever comes out the other side will become the next era of life on Earth. Humans may or may not be part of that paradigm.
I feel sorry for the human species... we have been burdened with this thing we refer to as 'intelligence'... we celebrated the harnessing of fire that allowed us to cook and eat a wider range of foods... that allowed us to expand into colder parts of the planet ...
Then we used the big brains to work out how to farm - hurrah - more people!!!
Haber Bosch were hailed as heroes -- more people!!!
Next up - extinction.
Does anyone else see 'intelligence' as stupidity?
Unless of course we fall into a "behavioral sink" well before we reach such hard limits, like the poor mice of Universe 25 notoriously did, that is.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_sink
See any parallels to humans today? At least in some circles in some parts of the world perhaps? It's almost like Gaia is trying to tell us something....
Nailed it.
Now go a step farther... if you were running the show ... and you realized that we were about to hit a tipping point on resources where the global economy was guaranteed to collapse... supply chains implode -- lights go out - supermarkets go empty...
And 8 billion humans flooded onto the dark streets -- hungry ... angry ... and looking to skin you alive...
What would you do?
Maybe this? https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=220
Conspiracy theories present entertainment for the “intelligent ape” that is humankind’s self image. But as we entertain ourselves thinking that we have agency to run the show Nature will just rewrite the script of life. Time is the superpower of natural law.
Smart and informative.
Thank you.