Anthropomorphizing for nothing else will do
Imagine that you are an ape-man and you hear a rustle in the grass. If you take cover assuming a rustle in the grass is a dangerous predator and it is just the wind, you have made a no harm error and the natural choice because if you chance the rustle is just the wind when it is a dangerous predator, you have made a fatal error and thereby removed yourself from your species' gene pool (Dodo bird). Species survival and evolution would dictate the fear of the unknown and decisions based on a worst of two evils scenario. There was a natural selection for hominids that tended to believe that all patterns are real and potentially dangerous. This is the natural basis for the acceptance of angels, demons, ghosts, souls, spirits, intelligent designers, and all manner of invisible agents intending to harm us or help us. Now as large-brained hominids with a developed cortex, we have the capacity to be aware of such mental states as desires and intentions in both ourselves and others, and thusly equipped with our mystical sixth sense. We commonly "read minds" by projecting ourselves into someone else's shoes (as in pain and empathy) or by imagining someone is out to get us (as in fear or jealousy). By the way mystical perception exaggeration is easy, very profitable, but socially destructive.
Now we are using primitive tools and mindset to accelerate another mass extinction on our sacred planet in defiance of Mother Nature. Worst case in the wake of our demise new life forms will evolve as did after super volcanoes and asteroid impacts. The earth is at half-life and will survive the human parasite outbreak and given the time line and our track record a man made global disaster to our demise is plausible. Think about it, banks rely on the economy, countries rely on banks, and the economy relies on all natural resources. In simple terms you first?
At the same time we still make hominid decisions like propagating patented capricious seeds engineered for profit by monopolies and a “grain famine” could spread globally and exponentially. What goes around comes around and how ironic that mom would use the Greed Seed to thin out the herd. Keep in mind just like the war profit process there is much more wealth to share for the purveyors and survivors of catastrophe.
I rather thought Mother Nature was taking care of herself between ice-ages with the extreme atmospheric oscillation that eventually would cause the same global “grain famine” or be assisted by a magnetic reversal or celestial awareness like another earth bound Sun’s Solar flair that would eliminate a country’s power grids. Yes 10 days of hunger and you too will look like food. It could be a simple chain reaction of one tree too few, a bug, a flu, or any of our many extinct nothing else’s will do.
We are all by nature the loggers, minors, warriors, and purveyors in one way or another that is supporting extinction no lie no way out.
In the motivation of guilt perhaps I should take interest in balance on such high stakes mater. Now I have acted by commenting something about ecology. Should I dare wish to do something?
My wish is to be part of an effort to clean up the North Pacific Ocean garbage patch. The USA sized thermally blanketed plastic oil slick of poison is churning around constantly and some of the 50 year old plastic is slowly ground down in size to problematic poisonous plankton pellet for whales of crude oil and mayhem on birds and fish alike. We are consuming the very plates we ate from in early days of our disposable decadence.
How about a plastic solar powered, floating recycle plant?
JimRaab
