If I may make my second OP - and its about climate change.

[napoleon_in_rags]

24. This is a good provocative post.

But Kaku's way isn't the only way.

Some popular scientists who focus on the future we can have through technological change, like Michio Kaku, claim we may or may not survive in the way we consider it today. He says our chance is as a planetary civilization, not as nation-states, all working for a common goal.

Its what the scientific community has been pushing toward, and failing miserably, because all they do is run around seeking to build consensus in this direction. But building consensus is useless. Those who excel at it use their power almost exclusively to build their wealth and power more, and such altruistic endeavours as Kaku proposes are simply too expensive to any of them in such a competitive game.

A post that replies to this, I read as warning against human genetic engineering as a response. That's new territory for humans and the warning is wise, but nature has long been in the business of engineering life forms through evolution. In fact the lens of evolution - survival of that which works - can be used to view technologies, religions, social movements and the rest. The question is, what is the advantage of it for the unit of evolution: How does a technology, ideology, movement or anything else HELP those who embrace it.

This is what matters now IMHO. This country is dying with diabetes and obesity, and the solution, way more fruits and veggies, bike rides etc. Is the cure. It leads to a fit and joyful life. The economy is suffering, and the solution is connected communities with local production of goods and services. In addition to helping with those issues, these things help with climate change. Furthermore, those of us who know it's real are positioned to know some of the disasters coming. How do we help ourselves and others who know, and through empowering our own, give a way of being that other people will want to embrace, because it works, because it keeps you alive, and its joyful, and good.

That's the challenge now. Part of it is for the scientific community to accept that Star Trek world unity isn't here yet, and won't be. The world won't unify behind them but this small army will. We're still in nature's game, which is freedom: Every species, every ideology, gets some cards and lays them down. Some make it some don't. The focus of the community needs to be on playing their cards - and those who are with them - as well as possible. Find something that works, and the whole world will follow freely, no global government needed.

PEace!