Experts Fear Collapse of Global Civilisation

[PATRICK]

96. The meaning of homo sapiens existence

Its place in the biosphere is uniquely evolved to help the planet survive extraordinary threats, even to manage the biosphere if they could wrap those brains and hands around their real contribution. Consciousness, logic, socialization, hands. If we are just another another temporary grazer and nomad in this system we will go extinct as much as any other species. If we only manage to squeeze some privileged survivors who can outwit Darwin but never realize their potential in service to Earth we may, in consummate pride, be the successful Lucifer to the dying Gaia. Only our evil thus is preserved, a successful revolt for the most selfish and gifted of animals, that on the grand scale makes Dracula look like Clara Barton. If that works it would be a continuing threat to other worlds, if not we would have a shame-filled ludicrous and abominable mausoleum for this world's ultimate failure.

This state of alarm should have been raised decades ago. Now as the real scenarios encroach on feel good greed and groundless optimism the lying words are "surprise" and "too late" to continue the death march of failed humanity toward some mythical refuges for the few.

So much of our progress is a sick joke. Rockets and bombs that might have crudely staved off threats from our rocky region of space were only accidents of war and profit- and hardly even an afterthought is given to the fact that no porpoise could accomplish this. Our environmental effects and interests are largely the same. The more for selfish profit, the more the waste of potential is embarrassingly not even mentioned. This is not nor ever will be our species' personal paradise. We elect to live like the animals, exploit our advantages like animals and we will die like animals. We have sunk to the occasion in despicable, laughable arrogance and pride.
Better to reign in Hell than serve the Earth, but all mortals die. In the big picture our final result may at best resemble that of cockroaches.

But we have been given so much more. It is not tragedy. It is shame.

People have been wandering around in their personal paradise pondering the "great" questions. Why am I here? What is the meaning of life?
While ignoring the obvious. We are part of nature, the community of animals with a natural life to live. Our human evolution has made us the one species that can see and can serve all other life. Most people could get that. Few make it their whole life. Society is run by animal hunger and fear.
We are the evolved gods here. We choose to be rats?

The stages of grudging talking point controlled reaction to the "too late" probably run parallel to the complex natural horrors to come. If don't get a little more in tune than that our powers of reason and technology will be hard pressed for self-serving miracles.