In my last written post (to clarify the difference between the files, which contain only links to outside material), I mentioned denial of reality. You might wonder what this has to do with climate change and extinction. Cognitive dissonance is one of the most powerful mental issues that affects humans. Rob Mielcarski explains the evolution of how this came to be, quote: " The singular emergence of human intelligence, and its ability to write and read this paragraph, evolved in a gene controlled machine with an unusually powerful computer, that was created by an improbable simultaneous adaptation for an extended theory of mind with denial of reality, and whose complexity was enabled by the increased energy per gene provided by mitochondria, that resulted from an accidental endosymbiosis of two prokaryotes, powered by an unintuitive chemiosmotic proton pump, that originated in an alkaline hydrothermal vent, on 1 of 40 billion planets, in 1 of 100 billion galaxies, and that plane...
Eric,
ReplyDeleteThe most important "spiritual resource" one can find, or one can have is someone/someones that we are close to and see often that understands what is going on at the critical Earth-Systems Level.
I don't mean people who get it like you and like many of us, I have been at this for 30+ years for example, but people who do know that we are in for a great deal of suffering, no matter what we do, and that the suffering cannot be avoided, but has to be dealt with sooner or later.
One example is the number of humans. Now in 2021, we have ~8 billion humans. Almost half, and at leas one-third are totally dependant on methane to survive, because methane is the what we use to produce food fertilizer. So called renewables cannot produce the heat/pressure needed to pull apart the N2, nitrogen that is 4/5 of the atmosphere and all proteins have nitrogen, that is an inert gas.
So, methane is necessary for at least 1/3 of us to eat enough and not starve, yet methane continuing in present use means the planet is unlivable. Therefore, enough to eat for everyone is a Catch-22, a dilemma, a predicament. Ther e is no viable solution.
And not having enough to eat for everyone means suffering. Suffering for all.
Someone to talk with, someone who knows we cannot build or invent our way out of the intractable problems beyond repair is crucial, and I am not sure that clinical therapists fit the bill.
Even blogs don't satisfy.
Eric,
ReplyDeleteThe most important "spiritual resource" one can find, or one can have is someone/someones that we are close to and see often that understands what is going on at the critical Earth-Systems Level.
I don't mean people who get it like you and like many of us, I have been at this for 30+ years for example, but people who do know that we are in for a great deal of suffering, no matter what we do, and that the suffering cannot be avoided, but has to be dealt with sooner or later.
One example is the number of humans. Now in 2021, we have ~8 billion humans. Almost half, and at leas one-third are totally dependant on methane to survive, because methane is the what we use to produce food fertilizer. So called renewables cannot produce the heat/pressure needed to pull apart the N2, nitrogen that is 4/5 of the atmosphere and all proteins have nitrogen, that is an inert gas.
So, methane is necessary for at least 1/3 of us to eat enough and not starve, yet methane continuing in present use means the planet is unlivable. Therefore, enough to eat for everyone is a Catch-22, a dilemma, a predicament. Ther e is no viable solution.
And not having enough to eat for everyone means suffering. Suffering for all.
Someone to talk with, someone who knows we cannot build or invent our way out of the intractable problems beyond repair is crucial, and I am not sure that clinical therapists fit the bill.
Even blogs don't satisfy.