If It Hadn't Been For

I Don't Think We're Yet Evolved To The Point Where We're Clever Enough To Handle A Complex A Situation As Climate Change. The Inertia Of Humans Is So Huge That You Can't Really Do Anything Meaningful.

The Tropical Rain Forests Are A Telling Example. Once Cut Down, They Rarely Recover. Rainfall Drops, Deserts Spread, The Climate Warms.

Geological Change Usually Takes Thousands Of Years To Happen But We Are Seeing The Climate Changing Not Just In Our Lifetimes But Also Year By Year.

Those Of Us Who Consider Ourselves To Be Somehow Involved In The Birthing Of A New Age, Should Discover Gaia As Well. The Idea Of Gaia May Facilitate The Task Of Converting Destructive Human Activities To Constructive And Cooperative Behavior. It Is An Idea Which Deeply Startles Us, And In The Process, May Help Us As A Species To Make The Necessary Jump To Planetary Awareness.

Climate Change Now Represents So Urgent A Threat To Mankind That The Only Way To Deal With It Is By Suspending Democracy.