One Thing That Being A Scientist Has

Imagine A Survivor Of A Failed Civilization With Only A Tattered Book On Aromatherapy For Guidance In Arresting A Cholera Epidemic. Yet, Such A Book Would More Likely Be Found Amid The Debris Than A Comprehensible Medical Text.

Only Rarely Do We See Beyond The Needs Of Humanity, And He Linked This Blindness To Our Christian And Humanist Infrastructure. It Arose 2,000 Years Ago And Was Then Benign, And We Were No Significant Threat To Gaia. Now That We Are Over Six Billion Hungry And Greedy Individuals, All Aspiring To A First-world Lifestyle, Our Urban Way Of Life Encroaches Upon The Domain Of The Living Earth.

Those Of Us Who Consider Ourselves To Be Somehow Involved In The Birthing Of A New Age, Should Discover Gaia As Well. The Idea Of Gaia May Facilitate The Task Of Converting Destructive Human Activities To Constructive And Cooperative Behavior. It Is An Idea Which Deeply Startles Us, And In The Process, May Help Us As A Species To Make The Necessary Jump To Planetary Awareness.

We Are The Intelligent Elite Among Animal Life On Earth And Whatever Our Mistakes, [earth] Needs Us. This May Seem An Odd Statement After All That I Have Said About The Way 20th Century Humans Became Almost A Planetary Disease Organism. But It Has Taken [earth] 2.5 Billion Years To Evolve An Animal That Can Think And Communicate Its Thoughts. If We Become Extinct She Has Little Chance Of Evolving Another.

The Climate Is Doing Its Usual Tricks. There's Nothing Much Really Happening Yet. We Were Supposed To Be Halfway Toward A Frying World Now.