I haven't blogged in a while. That's because my brain went into a state of ferment. Its generally vegetating... now it was fermenting.
I've just studied a couple of poems that deal with nature, and how mankind is ruining nature, and how we don't appreciate nature, and how we don't see God in nature, and other assorted arguments for nature.
And these arguments make sense. We've lost touch with nature, and we cannot go back to living in trees, because that's not what we do. We live in houses, with leather sofas. Heck, even the sofas aren't made from things that live in trees. That's a pretty sad state of alienation from the planet that sired us. And we cannot do without our 'privacy' and our 'creature comforts'. We need them.
My point is that we've lost touch, and we haven't really tried to regain that touch, so now we've passed a point of no return, where we cannot go back. Although try we will to save the tigers, and the whales, and the dolphins, and other assorted animals. And prevent global warming, and people on the coasts from drowning. And protect ourselves from swarming insects. We try. We almost always fail. And success is short term.
And at this juncture, we cannot really do much to save nature anymore. I think its far beyond repair. We will continue to loose species at an 'alarming' rate. We will inject greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and further the cause of global warming. And we should all feel sad for ourselves, and blame older people, and the other generation. And feel sorry for ourselves. And try to fix what we can. And feel sorry for ourselves.
I'm not saying we shouldn't try to fix it. We should try to fix it... unless we do what I think is the other option we've got.
The other option we've got is to completely industrialize and urbanize the world. We're really smart people, humans. We built buildings, for heaven's sake. And bridges. And other such industrial marvels. We've got water in the middle of the desert. We've got mid-air refuelling. We've got faster-than-sound speeds. We've got buildings that reach Mars. This is how inventive we are. And we're also the ones who murdered nature, and who completely destroyed most of it.
But those people are the same people who managed to get water in the middle of the desert. We've conquered nature, if you like. More or less. We just haven't completely conquered it, and that's affecting us, through the form of random natural disasters.
But I'm saying completely humanize the world. We need to leave not one trace of nature on this planet. And a couple of generations down, no one would be the wiser. And we'd finally achieve our dream of owning this planet. Although is beyond me why anyone would want to own a large rock. Which spins. In the middle of nowhere.
But I digress. If we could just harness nature in its entirety, then we wouldn't have to worry about global warming, because we would control the 'global' in global warming. We wouldn't have to worry about tigers. They wouldn't exist. We wouldn't have to worry about flies, and mosquitoes, and malaria. They wouldn't exist either.
Nothing major in either direction is going to happen in the next hundred years, so this really doesn't concern me, but I just find it endlessly fascinating that we half heartedly try to 'control' nature. And we've half- succeeded. We just need to succeed more often. Then we'd be set. Or we need nature to dictate what we do. Then we'd be set.
This in-between path is going to get us killed faster than we care.
Not that I care, because I'd be dead at the time anyway.
Just be warned, future generation of people who will not read this blog, because it will be obsolete then. Be warned.
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Well, this is what I know about the global warming :
Financial analysis conducted over the global warming concerns clearly show that, considering the current level of our dependency on processes creating global warming, now it's about twice more expensive to cut down carbon dioxide emissions than to pay the costs of adaptation to the resulting temperature rise of 2 degrees ....
what I read in the Guardian, some financial analyst he was ......
So there ! we're better off with new temperatures, the world needs more fresh water (directly related to sea levels), we'll be spending less on jumpers and jackets and other mild heating stuff, many snow wastelands will become irrigable and sahara will be flooded instead (not much in there to be concerned about anyways), as for cities, they can be protected by sea/river barriers, (London's been doing this successfully for the last 15 years or something with the Thames barrier alone, also, 60% of Netherlands lies beneath sea levels, and is still being artificially protected for ages, not a huge deal to die moaning about )
As for animals, they'll just lose some fur and learn to swim, extinction's nature's way anyways, and how everything evolves .....
So there ! I created a legitimate excuse for owning a spinning piece of rock. :-D
although I'll be dead enough, not to be able to join the celebrations too !!
Why do we worry and argue about the future, way, way in the future anyways ? No other species does ...... I'm confused now .......
Hmmm.
I fully disagree with completely industrializing everything, since everything is somehow connected to nature. Nature isn't just plants and trees. We forget that we're part of nature as well. And nature probably created us with the intention that we as beings with the ability to think and reason things out logically, would help her. But, quite obviously, we don't.
And we don't 'control' nature. We never could. We can only manipulate it. You can't stop an earthquake with the push of a button. Or for that matter, you can't even stop a fellow human being with the push of a button. Unless it's a suicide bomber. Besides, nature gave us the brains in the first place.
There is still lots we can do. 5 standard assembly speech-ish, but there is.
This wasn't a well thought out post.
Yes... we are somehow perpetually connected to nature. Inexplicably.
But if we COULD control nature... then we wouldn't be dependent on it anymore. We could completely eliminate it.
But that's almost impossible... becuase our food comes from there. Not to mention water. And other things.
We need to strike a balance. I shall blog about this once I've thought it over well.
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