The theory shows that organisms interact with their inorganic surroundings on Earth to form a self-regulating, complex system that contributes to maintaining the very conditions for life on the planet. In short the planet acts as a self-regulating organism. Topics of interest include how the biosphere and the evolution of life forms affect the stability of global temperature, ocean salinity, oxygen in the atmosphere, and other environmental variables that impact upon the habitability of Earth. And finally we arrive at the topic biodiversity!
William Boroughs said a paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. Thats how I feel about climate change and/or global warming. It seems nonsensical to suggest that our intervention into the biosphere has made no difference to its balance, and there's certainly more Co2 now than there was when these subjects were first raised, accompanied by dire predictions about increased temperatures and rising sea levels being almost imminent. Yet it seems in 15 years the temperature has remained about the same, while we are told 97% of scientists see the problem as getting worse. Noam Chomsky, not known for doomsday predictions, repeatedly claims that we are on the edge of destruction, and there's an increasing number of websites who only seem to preach about the end of times.
The prospect of a psychopath (plenty of choices there), one from either party lobbing a nuclear bomb at someone does not seems as remote as it should do now that the US occupies at least 134 countries... twice as many as in the Bush era.
Since 911, an event destined in perpetuity to be as shrouded in as much mist as the Kennedy assassination, trillions of dollars have been spent on 'keeping us safe' with 270 new organisations and 1M people granted top-secret clearances. It's an overkill that has allowed Americans to perform an infamous pas de deux by welding the impossibility of democracy with totalitarianism into something 'righteous' and almost entirely non-enigmatic.
We have perhaps failed at this point to realise that the country has become the first ever to perform a coup d'etat on the whole world and nobody anywhere is free anymore. So far the people hardly care about themselves, never mind that humanity has been enslaved by the intrusion of their government. However, what will matter to the affluent is that soon enough they will also penetrate the world's financial markets and cause a form of chaos that cannot be unravelled.
The result, he added, is that it's impossible to tell whether the country is safer because of all this spending on all these self-important activities. "Because it lacks a synchronizing process, it inevitably results in message dissonance, reduced effectiveness and waste. We consequently can't effectively assess whether it is making us more safe." A point Edward Snowden reiterated in his recent interview with NBC. A casual observer might observe in his support that invading the privacy of at least another 3 billion people is hardly going to make you any friends.
All this expense and confusion, not to mention the erosion of constitutional rights for something that kills 17 Americans a year worldwide?
As the Washington Blog and others have reported: Y ou're More Likely to Die from Brain-Eating Parasites, Alcoholism, Obesity, Medical Errors, Risky Sexual Behaviour or Just About Anything OTHER THAN Terrorism
In the meantime, what we know for certain is that even though 60% of those interviewed can't define biodiversity or why it's important, scientists have been warning that Earth's ecosystems are nearing a catastrophic 'tipping point,' and that this problem is so severe that last year the UN warned: Accelerating Biodiversity Loss is a 'Fundamental Threat' to the 'Survival of Humankind'
Shouldn't we ask the question is it more sensible to spend all this money on surveillance than on improving our habitat, so by gaining friends all over the world, rather than making enemies by spying on them in their living rooms?
The movie below explains in detail about why as a race we may be facing the first mass-extinction event in 65 million years. So given that is true, who gives a toss about the big-business terrorist agenda? Or in fact any other agenda, from which celeb is breaking up with whom to who pockets the most cash in Congress today?
Johnson reminds us that the most diverse animal habitat in the world (the Amazon) is fast disappearing. Monbiot's biggest fear is 'other people's cowardice', and the Governor of the Bank of England encourages us to consider that perhaps miracles do happen! ...As for Gaia? Well this is something we have to learn, not as an intellectual exercise but as a way of life.
No more claiming that 'it's all up to the citizens' to recycle because that's a lie. Neoliberal-driven deregulation has clearly demonstrated that the big corps and energy companies can't be trusted with our waterways, agribusiness can't be trusted to understand the need for genetic diversity, and government can't be trusted not to be bribed by those that exploit the planet for short-term gain.
Lets stop talking about electing Hillary or some other completely narcissistic airhead and cease participating entirely in the non-democratic charade they expect us to dutifully rah rah come election time. Have we been dumbed down that much already?
Lets consider again the founding fathers.... establishing in their honour a parallel process run by the people and for the people. Nothing else will place human beings and the planet before all else while leaving some beauty for our children.
If we don't demand transformational change we will soon be writing our emails with sticks in the sand and working out how to make jungle drums. Our surveillance state at least.... will be in tune with nature.
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