(August 12, 2021 at 11:04 am)Brian37 Wrote:(August 12, 2021 at 9:32 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: I'm not looking forward to any apocalypse, but the odds are good that during a person's lifetime, they'll be in a situation where there's going to be a rough few days to a week, say with no electricity or running water due to any number of catastrophes. Being prepared for that week is inexpensive and worth it if you ever have to face it. As to an acual apocalypse, maybe I'm an optimist, but I think most people will pull together to help each other survive, ant and grasshopper alike. Cooperation is the greatest survival skill our species has.
Ultimately, like it or not, the sun, our star, the center of our solar system, has a life span, a time constraint. It is not cognitive, it didn't care 4 billion years ago, and it does not care now. It just does, it is merely a mater of physics and chemistry. If humans truly want to value life, the first thing and most important thing to do is to understand WE ARE NOT SPECIAL. If anything, we are an invasive species, and are becoming a victim of our own success. It isn't to say I don't value modern technology. I DO. Certainly I value typing what you are reading right now on a computer rather than using old ink and pen and having it delivered by horse. But that does not absolve our species from considering pace of consumption. And in my estimation our species is failing miserably in that respect.
Too much of the global economy is based on speed of consumption. If our species is to survive we have to evolve to create ways of slowing things down.
Good batch of nail polish remover eh?
Sounds like it' s really kicking in.....
I expect we' ll be seeing a poem soon.....
