...have led us to this point of anthropogenic cataclysm. I say CATACLYSM because the domino effect will deliver its consequences to every corner of the planet in short order.
Word have reached me, from family abroad, in countries lying closer to the equator, that temperatures in the past few years have reached easily 113 degrees. Children and elderlies falling ill from heatstroke. People feel like they are being "baked alive in an oven". Fish die by the thousands in low water level lakes from the heat.
We may still have a chance yet to save our planet. For this to happen, scientists and engineers must change their ways. They need to adopt the concept of SYMBIOTIC MUTALISM with nature and the planet. That is to say, they need to RESPECT the POWER of nature and natural laws. Instead of MANIPULATING and perverting the laws of mother nature, they optimize it - adhere to a win-win principle with mother nature. Humans must learn to live in mutualistic symbiosis with the planet.
I give you 2 examples of wrongheaded science: 1. CO2 SEQUESTRATION. Never mind the costs, but the dangers of all that sequestered CO2 wreaking havoc WHEN IT LEAKS. There is NOWHERE it can be buried that guarantees that it will NEVER leak.
2. Scientists say that separating carbon from CO2 requires such ENORMOUS energy that the laws of thermodynamics will leave us with a net positive of MORE CO2 than what there was to begin with. True. But why even bother contemplating going down this path?
As regards to CO2 separation , why not simply respect MOTHER NATURE - she separates CO2 for us already - quietly, gently and with such fragile beauty --> the photosynthesis of plants. She does not need to burn tons of fossil fuels or churn a nuclear plant for all the CO2 separation that she does and the oxygenation of our planet.
Here are the solutions for CO2 separation under the principle of symbiotic mutualism.
1. Create natural forest preserves of giant leaves plants such as the Colocasia, Gunnera Manicata, Xanthosoma robustum, etc. These plants do not have trunks. They are litterally just the gigantic man-size leaves and stems. They will grow fast. A forest preserve filled with giant CO2 separating leaves could be grown in a matter of days. Measure the amount of CO2 each leaf break down and the oxygen it releases into the air. We could literally GROUND COVER THE PLANET WITH THESE, where land is not being used.
2. STOP CUTTING DOWN TREES and BURNING FORESTS for farming and land "developing".
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Another wrongheaded, destructive, entropying human activity is WESTERN-STYLE farming. That is, crop dusting with life destroying chemicals- pesticides and insecticides. Year in year out, the lands are crop dusted, saturating the soil with toxic deadly chemicals, turning it into barren deserts in a matter of years.
The plethora of insects, microbes and bacteria found in the soil have their purpose. If you go to places untouched by man you will see vibrant forests, teeming with plant and animal life, they would not exist were it not for the insects, microbes and bacteria that western farmers pay Monsanto dearly to kill off.
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Another wrongheaded thinking - the practice of killing off "WEEDS" with yet again life destroying chemicals. Weeds, also, is mother natures way of preserving the soil. Keeping it rich with nutrients to feed the earthworms, microbes, bacterias needed for plant and animal life. The roots of weeds absorb nutrients from the soil. In this manner year round, year in year out, nutrients are preserved (in the roots, stems and leaves of weeds), and kept within the surface of the earth and prevented from being washed away and drained by the rains or scorched away by the sun's rays. The weeds die, decompose, renourish the soil and the cycle repeats itself.
RECYCLE plants, trees, rotting fruits and vegetables, peels, seeds, leaves - renourish the earth with it. They are natural fertilizers.
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Lastly,
1. STOP FRACKING! The consequences of which are not just CLIMATE DESTROYING METHANES.
2. STOP GENETICALLY MODIFYING our foods - another WRONGHEADED "SCIENCE". Nature provides us with an abundance of all that is needed to support life. The laws that preserve it manifests in it's natural balance so aptly described by Shakespeare :
HAMLET
Not where he eats, but where he is eaten: a certain
Convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your
Worm is your only emperor for diet: we fat all
Creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for
Maggots: your fat king and your lean beggar is but
Variable service, two dishes, but to one table:
That's the end.
KING CLAUDIUS
Alas, alas!
HAMLET
A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a
King, and cat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.
PERVERTING THE LAWS OF NATURE WITH WRONGHEADED SCIENCE OF GMO, leads to consequences suffered, yet unseen. Science without wisdom is the kind of STUPID SCIENCE that gave us the era of lobotomizing people as cures. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
p.s. It is for all that I believe above, that I am not supporting a Hillary Clinton presidency. Clinton is a defender of and promoter of fracking and GMO — just plain ol’ WRONGHEADED science. It’s the last thing that planet earth needs as it is convulsing from anthropogenic poisoning.