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This from Rajani reflecting Guy McPherson's worldview feels
understandably melodramatic. But fair enough, how we give voice to
the accumulative threats to 'civilisation' is a very contested
issue. <br>
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Some people have found the intentionally confronting approach of my
recent video <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57u_NGMQbkk"><i>Messages
from the Blue Planet</i></a> 'unnerving'. My son Elmer was very
helpful, he told me that he thought what I was doing with the videos
echoed the very last lines in Shakespeare's King Lear: <br>
<div align="center">'The weight of this sad time we must obey; <br>
speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. <br>
The oldest hath borne most: we that are young <br>
shall never see so much, nor live so long.</div>
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Yes, it is certainly a global emergency, yes, irreversible changes
appear to be in train. The two years of more or less 24/7 research
for <i>Messages From the Blue Planet</i> and its upcoming sequel
support this, and especially how the crisis has been created from,
and continues to be researched from a linear take on unfolding
events ('progress', capital accumulation etc). This tends to mean
that the climate modelling of how the earth system is evolving is
unhelpful about nonlinear change, which seems to be overwhelmingly
likely to be how forcings in the earth system will be expressed/are
being expressed. Consequence: continuation of 'business as usual'.<br>
<br>
I doubt if evolution is over, a very long time ago oxygen was toxic
to some emerging life but a very long time later, here we are.
However I am certainly convinced that 'progress' will soon be
history.<br>
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Denis<br>
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Date: Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 1:30 AM<br>
Subject: Fwd: From Rajani: The End of Evolution?<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in
8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>
</span><span> </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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