Everyone is yammering on about sustainability as if there actually were such
a thing. With the outer reaches of what we can sense moving away from us at
half the speed of light; with 100 billion galaxies in our view, each with
the likelihood of life; with the sun cooling; with the earth fomenting an
earthquake, on occasion to remind us that it's shrinking; with matter
marching toward entropy...just what do you think is likely to be
sustainable? It is known that oil is a finite resource but we still think
the answer to that is to drill somewhere else. We should keep a little by
for medicinal purposes.

 

From birth, each human tries to put what infant eyes see as chaos, into a
snapshot that will remain stable long enough to understand the world. Those
with courage see the constantly shifting sands of existence. Those without
it get rigid. That's where man becomes irrational. Being born of woman does
not auger well for eternal life. Yet we tend to live and think as if there
were no end for us. It just continues into the hereafter. 

 

 

It's been said if the history of the world were a book, mankind makes its'
appearance in the last sentence of the last page.

 

 Starting on that last page, if the history of MANKIND were written, not
much would change since we came out of the caves except technology. That has
served to arm us savages with enough stored energy to obliterate all life on
the planet. This is currently guarded by a variety of superstitious fanatics
that believe that an all powerful force is on their side. Some of them blow
themselves up; others of them merely send their youth to fight wars in
foreign sands. 

 

In the last billionth of a microsecond of that last page is the era we live
in. To even use the word sustainable about anything in it is laughable.
Physical systems either adapt or die. If they adapt it is only temporary.
Death has time to wait. Every species changes its environment. This change
is to its' own disadvantage. We are no different. This "sustainable"
macro-farming is running its little course. According to the USDA our
produce has only about half the nutrition in it than it had 50 years ago.

 

Can we expect the bees to be superior to us? If given time, they may adapt
to living on a semi and waking up in a new place every morning. For a while.
That change was not certain but the little chance it had is obviated by the
narrowing of the gene pool in an almost systematic way.

 

It is only a question of time until some fellow human explodes an atomic
bomb. That may solve the population problems of the planet for a bit. Every
species changes the environment to its disadvantage. Our warlike nature may
be an adaptation.

 

Now that I've cheered you up, have a nice holiday.

 

Dick Marron

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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