AVOIDING PLANETARY SUICIDE, Step Two.
GROKKING THE UNDERGROWTH (ONCE WE WERE COOL).
“Grant me the Serenity to accept what I cannot change, the
Courage to change what I can, the Wisdom to know the difference.” Anon.
It is more than useful to understand how we the Human Race pushed Our Planet into this Mess, this very real existential threat. Disastrous Climate Change is nothing new, it has been occurring Naturally since the planet began. But this time the provocation is Manmade….. Yet it is part of the evolution of our specie.
So - Q). Is evolution necessarily an unconscious programming or do we have the ability of Conscious Evolution ?
A). Yes. Not by weaving some magic spell. Yes by Clear thinking. Yes by Peaceful Action. Yes by taking personal responsibility - together.
We are daily confronted by clear and powerful evidence that we are madly rushing to our own destruction. Human lemmings, led by greedy fools. Ouch !!!
Evolution tends to gradually creep along until conditions are right for either Sudden Mass Extinction or…….
or What ?
MUTATION ??
Whilst mutation may have some benefits to human life (as we know it), - Extinction has NONE ………
For Centimillenia we somehow got by, evolution barely creeping. It notched up a gear when matriarchal hunter gatherer societies started to experiment with plant and animal husbandry. That was probably 12,000 to 20,000 years ago. A conscious evolutionary experiment that ebbed and flowed at different tempos in different places.
Eventually Farming Settlements became pretty much the the standard, gradually switching en-route from Matriarchy to Patriarchy. Populations that were once based on resource sharing, grew quickly in numbers, and with that Exponential Growth came the twin concepts of tribal and personal ownership…. ie:- Evolution again. Dramatic increases in tribal sizes, meant ever less resources to share, and as a natural consequence - competition for territory between tribes. Stronger tribes either absorbed or slaughtered their weaker neighbours, becoming even bigger. Leaders thereby increased their power. A hierarchy evolved, promoting control systems of belief, ushering the concept of nationhood. Great armies set out to conquer and enslave, heralding the vicious onset of Colonialism, ie:- the evolutionary precursor of Globalism.
Evolution accelerated, wheels to gunpowder, to flight, to bombs, to rockets. ie., fist fights to remote controls capable of slaughtering tens of millions. Corporate greed results in the deliberate extermination of indigenous peoples, eradication of their extensive knowledge and survival skills. Skills that the rest of us may very soon need, yet do not posses. OUCH !! and OUCH AGAIN !!
Let me give the recent example of those four very young indigenous kids, who whilst fleeing from terrorists, ended up in a plane crash that killed all of their adult companions. These suddenly bereaved youngsters had the necessary skills to survive, without help, for many days in the angerous Amazonian jungle. Could you have done that ? How’s about your kids ?
The technological evolution largely driven by Globalist Greed now presents every single one of us with just three options :-
FRY SOON
DROWN SOON
ACTION NOW
We have been lied to, cheated, manipulated, Led by Lemmings. Yet I do believe that we still have a chance :-
During the days of the Hippy Movement, we heard a powerful message :-
“This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius,……. Aquarius”
It gave us hope, without which there is no resolve.
Soooo - what needs to be done, what really matters here ??
I ALSO BELIEVE THAT CONSCIOUS RESPONSIBLE EVOLUTION IS THE CRITICAL KEY TO HOW WE CAN HEAL OUR WORLD, TOGETHER.
Soooo ….. some thoughts on what needs to be done, prioritized, and on what really matters to us as a race of concerned individuals, seeking mutual support, will be posted here at Maurice’s Substack on 12th July.
NeXt Legends. 5th July. “Children of the Aftermath” - (Introducing T’otherwith).
Plus a Snippet entitled “A Comparison”
NeXt Article. 12th July “What really matters”, The third of an Environmental series on how we may, together, avoid Planetary Suicide. (Think Cool).
AUTHORS NOTE :- Whilst the actual word is attributed to Robert A. Heinlein, the Concept has been around for at least a Centimillenium.
Thankyou for your visit, your time, Maurice




