[P2P-F] Fwd: From Rajani: The End of Evolution?

Mon Aug 20 09:57:43 CEST 2018

Michel, what is *your* take on this?

*george*

On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 7:11 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> From: r kanth <involutegandhian at gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 1:30 AM
> Subject: Fwd: From Rajani: The End of Evolution?
> To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>
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>                                                          *Doomsday?*
>
> May not be far away.
>
> Remember Barry Mcguire?
>
> His  song  was  titled ‘Eve of Destruction’.
>
> Could be an anthem for us all, in these  times.
>
>
>
> Let me explain.
>
> Turns out I am not the only gloom-sayer around.
>
> The really hard act here  is  Dr. Guy Mcpherson, Biologist and Concerned
> Citizen(he’s all over *Youtube).*
>
> He is predicting an *early* , *abrupt*, extinction for us anthropic
> beings ( I detest the term ‘ homo sapiens’: *Homo Baceolus *might  be
> more apt?).
>
> Here’s a digest.
>
> *Firstly,*  our  *Habitat.*
>
> Our species has been around for a bit.
>
> But 99% of all species are now extinct.
>
> Are we next?
>
> Yes, likely.
>
> In 1750 – the baseline year of Industrialisation - - planetary temp was at
> 13.5 Celsius.
>
> The species has survived, Guy  estimates,   at no more than about 2
> Degrees above that, and that may be the highest that permits a  real
> habitat for humans.
>
> Today we are  already 1.6 Degrees above the 1750 baseline.
>
> Close.
>
> *Second*, ‘*Civilisation’ *– his term, not mine – is a veritable *heat
> engine.*
>
> Only way to turn off this heating  is  a  total collapse of this’
> civilisation’ *tout a fait.*
>
> But , *Third,* such a collapse  of  this ‘civ’ brings about, in turn,  yet
> another crisis: *global dimming.*
>
> Industrial activity produces *particularates* that blanket the earth and
> block sun’s rays this ‘cooling’ the earth ( by some 3 degrees).
>
> If we stop that engine then the planet heats  up  some more , maybe , by
> another  4.5 Degrees.
>
> There goes our Habitat.
>
> *Fourth*, is  what he calls the *Sixth (Mass)  *Extinction: the
> *ominicide* extant that is killing  off as many as , perhaps,  200 species
> *a day.*
>
> Their death presages ours.
>
>
>
> Plus,  the steady melt of Arctic ice could release trapped methane in
> abrupt fashion.
>
> All that could shoot  Planetary temp up to 19 Degrees,  *within a year or
> two,  at  most:*
>
> *ergo,* crop failures, droughts, starvation, *et. al (*note, he sees the
> ‘commencement ‘ of this scenario within  but a year or so).
>
> Pop goes the weasel.
>
>
>
> Why aren’t the powers that *shouldn’t *be telling us?
>
> Fear, of mass panic.
>
> Even science journals are loth to print  such radical ideas.
>
>
>
>
>
> So, what can be done?
>
> *Nothing,* says Guy, since it’s out of control already.
>
> We are doomed.
>
> *Instead, he asks us to remain calm, pursue excellence, and pursue love.*
>
> Whew.
>
> Tall order.
>
> I like the last, the second to  last is but an old  affectation,  and the
> first may be  well beyond reach.
>
>
>
> I register only 2  informed objections – to his analysis -  neither of
> them minor.
>
> No, ‘Western Civ’ is not ‘civ’, by any stretch ( I have explained this in
> many *Works*): it in fact a ‘culture of death’ , to use a telling phrase
> of  environmentalist Vandana Shiva, that has brought us to  this
> catastrophic pass.
>
> Second, if we are counting,  it’s not the 6th,  but, in fact,  the 7th
> Extinction.
>
> *The Sixth was the genocide against Non-Europeans,  carried out by Europe,
> non-stop since 1492.*
>
> Yes, *non-stop.*
>
> Have a look around.
>
>
>
> Other than that, his logic and facts appear sound.
>
> We need to listen to  Barry.
>
> And to Guy.
>
> It’s time for soothsayers to step up: all others have, more or less,  failed
> us.
> *[©R.Kanth 2018] *
>
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