THE WORLD CLIMATE AND OUR FUTURE

The Author, commencing from the mid 1970, began informing the world that the determinants necessary for a centralised society were not sustainable and that it was well on the way to destroying the earth as a setting for human habitation. That centralised society (including mankind's unnatural/unhealthy living habits) was not just a failed experiment, that it was the cause of all the numerous challenges this civilisation is having to contend with for it's very survival, and which a centralised society has no hope of solving.

No centralised society in the past ever had any long-term chance of survival. It is about time that the scientists stop believing they will find solutions to the crises (syndrome) gripping the world and admit they do not have the least idea of where they are going. They need to acknowledge their limitations and inform the world leaders that they will never have a comprehensive solution to the challenges to the survival of our present centralised society and if we to have any chance we need to decentralise. Why, because it is not possible to have solutions to the challenges of survival in a centralised society and any FOOL who thinks otherwise needs to be locked away because HE is a danger to mankind's future.

The problem we have is the world is plagued with millions of iffy specialists with unscientific assumptions. Only an individual with the total picture of every determinant necessary for a liveable and sustainable future can provide a new socio-economic rationale that would have the potential of a desirable long-term survival, functioning within the constraints that govern the rest of the natural environment.

Two extremely important threats to mankind's survival on earth, which the scientists have not even begun to warn society about, is the rapid increase in the acidic level of the air we breathe and the effect of acid rain on the fertility of the earths soils, which even in many rural areas is dropping to low Ph. 5 levels, which is a 100 times more acidic than it was prior to our folly of developing a centralised society with cities which require dependence on fossil fuels.

The Author KNOWS not BELIEVES that he could design and develop highly desirable and sustainable communities, each one with it's own economic focus operating within the current budget of the natural energy sources of any local environment and which at the same time would be able to adhere to the first law/ morality of nature by been able to return the resources which it used to sustain itself been returned from whence they came in a re-usable state and in so doing not destroying the balance of the Biosphere.

The Author began presenting prospectuses from 1976 until 1983 to governments on the need and desirability of a self reliant society developed by utilising a sustainable bio-regional education and development approach, which was obviously the only way this civilisation had of not going down the same path as 30 or more centralised civilisations that have come and disappeared, because they destroyed the Biosphere they depended on, after they centralised and built cities.

The prime difference is they only destroyed the small area of land they depended on for the resources they needed to develop their cities, whereas our civilisation is destroying every aspect of the earth's Biosphere, the air, the precipitation, the forests and soils of the whole planet. We have poisoned the air we breathe, have destroyed most of the forests and as a consequence lost precipitation. We have done so, mainly in pursuit of the unnatural and unhealthy types of foods we now consume, which are very different to mankind's natural diet when it made it's appearance on earth.

The loss of the forests, the guardians of the earth and of life on mother earth are the principal builders of our soils, the purifiers of the air we breathe, moderate the earth's temperature and ensure rainfall. The loss of tree cover has been the main cause of climate change even more so than fossil fuels until recently.

A highly decentralized society developed bio-geographically and with mankind partaking of it's natural diet would eliminate almost all of the destructive aspects of a centralize society. The pertinent question is whether this civilisation is prepared and fully committed to accept the life saving sacrifices of forsaking an unnatural unhealthy lifestyle in order for mankind to commence on a path of evolving in consciousness rather than it's present more and more ignorant destructive, unconscious, and unfulfillable existence.

DO YOU REALLY WANT TO KNOW “THY SELF” WELL THE AUTHOR CAN TELL YOU HOW.

BUT KNOWING WON'T GET YOU FROM FIRST BASE UNTIL ONE HAS LIVED THE LAWS GOVERNING MANKIND'S NATURALCONSTITUTION FOR AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME WITHOUT ANY BACKSLIDING INTO OLD HABITS, IT'S ALL OR NOTHING.

IN DOING SO, ONE GAINS SUPER CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE AGELESS STATE OF BEING, THE SO CALLED FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH.

SUFFICE TO SAY THERE ARE NUMEROUS CHALLENGES TO ATTAIN THESE DESIRABLE OBJECTIVES LEAST OF WHICH IS A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT.

HEY IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE SEEING, THINKING AND ARE COMMITTED TO MAKE A REAL DIFFERENCE – IT BEGINS AND ENDS WITH YOU.

THE PRIME LESSON MANKIND NEEDS TO LEARN

The prime lesson mankind needs to learn quick smart is that nature to be commanded, must be obeyed. What ever we do must adhere to all its laws. Technology is only acceptable when it's effects can be ameliorated by the Biosphere.

Our lifestyle, and the communities we develop, are only sustainable when they adhere to all the laws that govern the rest of natural world. The first commandment, morality of nature for a sustainable, stable and productive environment is all that was derived from the Biosphere must be returned in a re-useable state from whence it came.

THE BALANCE OF NATURE A BASIS FOR HUMAN VALUES

Edited from the Journal of the Centre for Integrative Education in1968

“The “balance” of nature really has to do with the way in which natural processes relate to their environment, namely, through the efficient recycling of energy.”

“Natural communities operate on a current budget of solar energy, deploying it so as to keep the system itself in operating condition, maintaining or even enhancing the capacity of habitat to sustain life. Through variety and complexity, niches are afforded to organisms, visible and invisible, each of which plays its part in sustaining activity. Organic materials produced by green plants out of the raw substances of air, water and earth, are broken down step by step, in elaborate food chains until their components are returned whence they came, once more in usable form.”

“When a natural community succeeds in realising this recycling, it gains a relative equilibrium or “balance” in relation to other communities.”

The concept of the balance of nature, so conceived, therefore becomes a normative concept for the life of natural communities. Of the many things a natural community must accomplish, it cannot fail to achieve balance in the pattern of its energy utilisation. This is the first law of the morality of nature.”

“Yet mankind’s, of all earth’s creatures, has been the chief perpetrator of ecological disregard. Under the rubric of progress, it is pursuing a fantastic delusion of endless growth which, in its economies, its obsession with mass-urbanism, the proliferation of its population, and in the horrendous examples of technological pollution, is well on the way to ruining the world as a setting for mankind’s habitation. The record of mankind’s misuse of the natural environment is too well documented in both popular and technical literature to need mention here. Suffice to say that the ecological crisis of our time is worldwide. It is rooted in the view of the mankind/nature relationship is dualistic in holding that the means of technological advance can be derived from nature, but the ends that direct it cannot. Since the consequences of our technological means have produced the ecological crisis, it follows that the ends we have followed are suspect by implication. The search for a new theory of mankind’s relationship to nature, therefore, is centred on a new conception of the ends and values that guide the means we employ.”

“The balance of nature provides an objective normative morality that can and must be utilised as the base/ground of mankind’s value. It serves as the source of all ecological values and is, in other words, a kind of ultimate value. It says in effect to man:

“This much at least you must do, this much you must be responsible for. You must at least develop and utilise energy systems that recycle their products back into Nature. Whatever else you attempt, must be consonant with this fundamental requirement”.

ALL PAST CIVILISATIONS THAT DID NOT SUCCEED IN THIS FUNDAMENTAL REQUIREMENT DID NOT SURVIVE

THE TWO MOST DESTRUCTIVE BY-PRODUCTS OF THE PRESENT CENTRALISED SOCIETY.

Probably the two most important destructive ones been the effect of the rapid increase in the atmospheric carbonic and other acid gas levels on the health of all life on earth and the Biosphere. The human body in most environments on earth is already battling to the maintaining the blood's homeostasis, especially the necessity to maintain the Ph and the acidic gases at healthy levels. The air we are breathing and the water we are drinking are already far to acidic for mankind's well being. And as a consequence the acidic based diseases of the human body are accelerating and are going to reach epidemic proportions in the not to distant future. They are directly as a result of supplying the present centralised civilisation with what it needs to survive but at the cost of destroying the sustainability of the Biosphere and ironically it's own very survival.

The quality of the air we breathe is even of far more importance than the food we presently eat and drink. The rapidly increase in the degeneration of the health of the environment and mankind's diet is the main cause of the increase in cardio-respiratory diseases, cancer, and all the acid diseases, some of which are known as the saccharide diseases such as arteriosclerosis, arthritis, diabetes and obesity.

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