<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Michel, what is <i>your</i> take on this? </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<font color="#3d3c40" face="garamond, serif"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><b style="">g<div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline">eorge</div></b></span></font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><font color="#3d3c40" face="garamond, serif" size="1"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><b><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"></div></b></span></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 7:11 AM, Michel Bauwens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michelsub2004@gmail.com" target="_blank">michelsub2004@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">r kanth</strong> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:involutegandhian@gmail.com" target="_blank">involutegandhian@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 1:30 AM<br>Subject: Fwd: From Rajani: The End of Evolution?<br>To: Michel Bauwens <<a href="mailto:michelsub2004@gmail.com" target="_blank">michelsub2004@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div dir="ltr">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span> </span><span> <wbr> </span><b>Doomsday?<span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">May not be far away.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Remember Barry Mcguire?<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">His <span> </span>song <span> </span>was <span> </span>titled
‘Eve of Destruction’.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Could be an anthem for us all, in these <span> </span>times.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Let me explain.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Turns out I am not the only gloom-sayer around.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The really hard act here <span> </span>is <span> </span>Dr. Guy
Mcpherson, Biologist and Concerned Citizen(he’s all over <i>Youtube).</i><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">He is predicting an <i>early</i>
, <i>abrupt</i>, extinction for us anthropic
beings ( I detest the term ‘ homo sapiens’: <i>Homo
Baceolus </i>might <span> </span>be more apt?).<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Here’s a digest.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i>Firstly,</i> <span> </span>our <span> </span><i>Habitat.<span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Our species has been around for a bit.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">But 99% of all species are now extinct. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Are we next?<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Yes, likely.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In 1750 – the baseline year of Industrialisation - - planetary
temp was at 13.5 Celsius.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The species has survived, Guy <span> </span>estimates, <span> </span><span> </span>at no
more than about 2 Degrees above that, and that may be the highest that permits
a <span> </span>real habitat for humans.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Today we are <span> </span>already 1.6
Degrees above the 1750 baseline.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Close.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i>Second</i>, ‘<i>Civilisation’ </i>– his term, not mine – is a
veritable <i>heat engine.</i><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Only way to turn off this heating <span> </span>is <span> </span>a <span> </span>total collapse of this’ civilisation’ <i>tout a fait.</i><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">But , <i>Third,</i> such a
collapse <span> </span>of <span> </span>this ‘civ’ brings about, in turn, <span> </span>yet another crisis: <i>global dimming.</i><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Industrial activity produces <i>particularates</i> that blanket the earth and block sun’s rays this ‘cooling’
the earth ( by some 3 degrees).<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">If we stop that engine then the planet heats <span> </span>up <span> </span>some
more , maybe , by another <span> </span>4.5 Degrees.<span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">There goes our Habitat.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i>Fourth</i>, is<span> </span>what he
calls the <i>Sixth (Mass) <span> </span></i>Extinction: the <i>ominicide</i> extant that is killing <span> </span>off as many as , perhaps, <span> </span>200 species<span>
</span><i>a day.</i><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Their death presages ours.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Plus, <span> </span>the steady melt
of Arctic ice could release trapped methane in abrupt fashion.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">All that could shoot <span> </span>Planetary
temp up to 19 Degrees, <span> </span><i>within a year or two, <span> </span>at <span> </span>most:</i>
<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i>ergo,</i> crop
failures, droughts, starvation, <i>et. al (</i>note,
he sees the ‘commencement ‘ of this scenario within <span> </span>but a year or so).<i><span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Pop goes the weasel.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Why aren’t the powers that <i>shouldn’t </i>be telling us?<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Fear, of mass panic.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Even science journals are loth to print <span> </span>such radical ideas.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">So, what can be done?<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i>Nothing,</i> says Guy,
since it’s out of control already.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">We are doomed.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i>Instead, he asks us to
remain calm, pursue excellence, and pursue love.<span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Whew.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Tall order.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">I like the last, the second to <span> </span>last is but an old <span> </span>affectation, <span> </span>and the first may be <span> </span>well beyond reach.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">I register only 2 <span> </span>informed objections – to his analysis - <span> </span>neither of them minor.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">No, ‘Western Civ’ is not ‘civ’, by any stretch ( I have explained
this in many <i>Works</i>): it in fact a ‘culture
of death’ , to use a telling phrase of <span> </span>environmentalist
Vandana Shiva, that has brought us to this catastrophic pass.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Second, if we are counting, <span> </span>it’s not the 6<sup>th, </sup><span> </span>but, in fact, <span> </span>the 7<sup>th</sup> Extinction.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i>The Sixth was the genocide
against Non-Europeans, <span> </span>carried out by
Europe, non-stop since 1492.<span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Yes, <i>non-stop.</i><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Have a look around.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Other than that, his logic and facts appear sound.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">We need to listen to<span>
</span>Barry.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">And to Guy.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">It’s time for soothsayers to step up: all others have, more
or less, <span> </span>failed us.<span></span></p>
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