While headlines bear alarms about suicide bombers in the Middle East, too many people fail to realize that our entire species has become a ticking time bomb for the planet. Scientific studies have incontrovertibly established that human gluttony and pollution are causing the greatest mass extinction since dinosaurs disappeared 65 million years ago. If present trends continue, half of all species will be extinct within this century. While our daily routines will continue without lions roaming the Serengeti (hey, we can always visit them at the zoo, right?) there is no life outside the web of life. Unspoken, but definitely implied among warnings of animal and plant extinction, is our own imminent human extinction. Modern humanity has taken a great deal of pride in the knowledge we have amassed about the Universe and life. As the most highly educated and information laden population in history, we collectively know a lot. But what do we really know about what we know? True, we have lots of data, but, as the crises before us reveal, we are apparently a little short of knowledge... Not everything we know is wrong, but everything we think we know is up for examination, reflection, and reconsideration. Bruce Lipton and Steve Bhaerman
Posted on: Sun, 06 Apr 2014 08:59:03 +0000
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