“…we need to change our way of thinking and look to the whole picture of our life and fate…”

I agree Wamith. But the “whole picture” can be a bit scary to look at.

We lived as hunter/gatherers for some two million years. It wasn’t much of a life, but it was a life nonetheless. We survived, which is probably a lot easier said than done. This whole modernity thing is only a spec in time. The Industrial Revolution took place only 150 years ago. This globalization thing is only about 20 years old. That’s nothing in terms of how long we’ve been here on this good earth.

The basic question is: What if some ery basic assumptions are all wrong? What if our sense of “progress”is grossly misguided? We believe

Maybe its wrong to run our economies on fossil fuels?

Maybe its wrong to do whatever it takes for the sake of the “bottom line.”

Maybe the amount of money we have is not as important as our quality of life?

99% of all species on earth have become extinct. If we want to survive as a species; if we want to beat the odds, so to speak, maybe we have to look at how we survived some two million years.

Many of us assume that the brutishness and violence we see swirling around us dates back to the brutishness of the cavemen. Actually, many of us are wrong. It turns out that the cavemen were actually quite kind to one another. They took care of each other, and shared what they had. There is a movie on the Discovery Channel called The Rise of Man, which makes the point. In one scene a bunch of cavemen were hanging out in there cave, with plenty of food. A strange clan showed up, who were hungry and desperate. Would they fight one another for the food and the shelter? No. The comfortable clan took them in, and increased their gene pool for the sake of procreation.

Maybe we have to find a way to go back to the logic of the cavemen, even as we search for our creature comforts?

If we act wisely, which is a big “if,” we will use the threat of climate change to come together in common purpose, and we will use environmental protection as an engine for economic growth, by which we protect the environment, grow our economies, and create good paying green jobs, all at the same time. Global Warming is the Grand Puppeteer’s way of giving us a swift kick in the ass, and forcing us to begin making sense of our lives.