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We all know that things on Earth are going from bad to
worse. We might even perceive that we are making our own
environment unlivable, lethal, yet, we have the tendency to
minimize things, to think that somebody will do something
about it, that already, maybe, things are being done.
No way!
First of all, we very seldom even hear of some (partial)
solution, the problems seem more interesting, and then only
about parts of the problem, of the threatening catastrophe.
We can hear or see programs or lectures on the cadmium problem,
the groundwater disappearance, deforestation, files on
the roads, monetary slumps, bombs in the market place, war,
perhaps holes in the ozone layer, famines, un-employment,
locust plagues, hooliganism, nuclear tests, alcohol and drug
addiction, industrial pollution, threatened species, rising
sea-level, etc., etc. without a single mention of the fact that
the pressure on the boiler is through overpopulation with
the sub-causes of superstition. This pressure is roughly a
thousand fold over the safety margin. That we reward the
begetting of children with money that usually is spent on
motor scooters, washing machines or booze, instead of taxing
children heavily is never spoken of. Yet every child, on an
overcrowded planet is a very heavy tax indeed, a deadly one.
The partial solutions we hear of, are childish and simpleminded,
not fit for an earnest, commonsensical thinking
person with a shred of conscience, with world problems on
his hands. So-called scientists even investigate the aftereffects
of a mondial nuclear war, a nuclear winter they call
it, forgetting such important factors as the atmosphere
streaming off into space, the binding of all oxygen, including the
ozone layer, etc. (32).
W.W. 3 cannot be survived in spite of the fantasy that Hackett wrote
about it.
Naturally, when the dumping of waste, for instance, is
regarded as bad, we should not do it. That is a solution
for a six year old kid, not of a grown up thinker, a reasonable man.
Because these childish solutions are often framed
by scientists, I would not call this book, a letter to scientists,
but an earnest appeal to all thinking people, which
may include a scientist when he is prepared to think commonsensical
and free from superstitions, free from rumors
taken seriously as facts. It is therefore too, that I shall
not mention disputable facts, no precise data, means, averages
or significance levels, no absolute numerical values
that may invite mathematical discussion and endless balderdash.
Some able scientists think that our future is measured
only in decades, and, seeing the relative ignorance about
the whole complex of interlaced living conditions, we may
think of one decade (i.e. before 2000 AD), of two, but
also of a half, which would make it 1990 or so. Even the
most optimistic figure would still mean total death, for me,
for you, for your children. I would not mention precise
data, but there are plenty of adamant facts, indisputable
facts, facts not deniable by whatever sort of intellect. It
is such a fact that e. g. our climate has been tempered,
always, by life (33), AFTER the development of life,
that
this means a control-mechanism, a life-typical trick but not
feed-back (34), a kind of pendulum balance that,
like feedback, can go mad too, and that bf our climate is now
showing tendency for extremes, for an unbalance, and that this will
end in a life-less, sterile planet. We know also for certain,
as indisputable fact, that this process of homothanatia
has started long before Homer (through the invention of fire,
the saw, the axe, etc.) (read Herodotus, see
also Waln, 1938 (35) ), that Sahara, Mediterranea,
Asia, etc. was
once lushly green instead of the brown and yellow of today,
that it is in some form of asymptotic behaviour because of
the absolute-, and minute-, interdependability of all gossamer
tiny influences thinkable. Just do not remark at the
occasional bad summer you might have. That has been so for
ages. But do note the extremes that you can deduct from the
media, these things that never happened before, that are
records of the century and so on. When the water of an
entire year comes down in a week, the rest of the year dry,
it only seems a normal year. Note that these extremes come
faster upon each other every time, centuries becoming
decades, decades then, years. They show the tendency
towards generation, the disturbed balance, the snow-ball,
that has become the normal today in the newsreels.
Droughts, floods, hurricanes, even the size of icebergs,
ocean waves, are not solely remarkable, but they point to a
stampede in climate. Do note such between the lines remarks
as: every year we have to drill deeper for water (India,
America, Africa, etc.). It means not only that when
people have cut their trees, and produced drought, they have
to get water from wells, but that in times to come, there
will be no wells. It all is very well known or it should be
so.
But, ... Nowhere Do We Recognize Any Honest Attempt To Think
About It, In A Rational Way!
A world problem - a world solution, (not agreements
between nations) ! Let us start with that as soon as possible,
for, if not, you, your-, our-, children will be killed
by us.
We shall manage to postpone the worst one way
and another but postponement is not solution and
when the breakdown comes, there'll be something
so ghastly that the hydrogen bomb will be humane
by comparison. Wyndham.
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2007-09-11