The silly thing is. Knowledge is dangerous.
The fact is that over the last 100 years human evolution has reached a stage where our technology and learning capacities are at a point where they are increasing at an exponential rate.
The fact that we are self-aware as to the Causality principle (Simply Newton's Reaction law) may ultimately bring about our own destruction. The probability of this occurring remains yet unknown.
*please explain*
In the 1600 - 1800's, while the human race was happily passing through the 'Enlightenment Period' we were blissfully unaware of the sciences of Environment alteration.
But now, we are at a point where we 'think' we know how the climate works, in the space of a few decades, and we are doing everything humanly possible to 'correct an apparent climate change'.
The earth has been around for millions of years, possibly billions.
What makes us think that suddenly we've become experts on our home planet after merely a few hundred years of 'playing with technology'.
How do we
know that we are having an impact on the equilibrium point of the earths climate?
I'm a scientist/engineer myself. So I'm all for trials and experiments that apparently prove certain conditions and causes.
But it still doesn't sit well with me.
But I'm a firm believer that there are greater forces at play on this planet than us. No none of that religious mumbo-jumbo. In fact, religion is the cause of 80% or more of the worlds problems today.
No, I'm talking about what we all cast our eyes up to of a dark night.
We are but a speck, an almost insignificant proportion of a much larger creation that has it's own path through time.
And I'm sorry to say that whether we as a race, or earth as a planet is meant to be a long standing part of that, is not up to us.
I think what it comes down to is this. We need to respect the time that is allowed to us.
/passes-the-peacepipe-on.