Do you feel lucky Humanity, do ya ?
Do you think you can accurately predict now what genes, species, geniuses we will need in the future ?
Do ya, do ya ?
Accurately enough to pick the most productive corn variety in America and bin all the underproducing heirloom varieties ; enough to pick the most Aryan children in Europe and eliminate all the rest together with all the adult defectives and asocials ?
Da ya, do ya ?
Think then of the resulting 1970s Corn Blight ; think if mass murder has ever really brought mass happiness.
Do you still feel lucky punks and punkettes ?
If so, perhaps then you have a hubristic personality (aka being left brained or possessing the conservative mind) : you oppose the need for any wasteful precautionary principles and biodiversity, because you already know all the answers.
But us who are more cautious about the human ability to accurately predict the future, store up our treasures of human diversity and biodiversity.
The more the better.
Because, dear Mr Harper, inside all that messy diversity, inside all the flood of refugees, inside all that 'humanity washed ashore', just could be Humanity's Plan B,C,D or X,Y,Z ---- when the cosmic poop really hits the planetary fan...
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Why My Urgency ?
- Michael Marshall
- Nova Scotia
- Histories of WWII all start with the presumption that it was a war raged between humans and human ideologies, with Nature’s climate and geography as side issues easily surmounted.My blog, on the contrary will only accept that it was conflict between humans and their ideology that STARTED the war but that it was the barriers thrown up by Mother Nature (geography & climate) that turned it into a war that lasted between 6 to 15 years and expanded to thoroughly involve all the world’s oceans and continents. High Modernity may have started the war convinced that Nature had been conquered and was about to be soon replaced by human Synthetic Autarky and that only human Tiger tanks and human Typhoon planes were to be feared. But by the end, more and more people had lost their naive faith in Scientism and were beginning to accept that humanity was thoroughly entangled with both the Nature of plants, animals & microbes as well as the Nature of so called “lesser” humanity. By 1965, the world was definitely entering the Age of Entanglement. Billions still believed - at least in part -with the promises of High Modernity but intellectually & emotionally, it was no longer dominant...
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