Global warming is forever. As a political topic it is soon to be over and done with. Citizens and policy makers will soon be in complete agreement: global warming is a natural fact, and climate change is an Act of God. If God can be understood as living in every man or possibly as a function of the combined efforts of every woman and man to make a difference in this world (which is the basics of the philosophy or belief of Jesus Christ, by the way) then it is possible to conclude that anything that is “manmade” must be an Act of God or indeed God’s will. Now, I am not in total agreement with Jesus Christ. I believe God is Nature, and lives in all beings of nature, including all plants and creatures. Mankind is simply the mammal which resides on the very top of the food chain, and as such possibly also among the more important components of what in my view would be “God” — in that mankind is the only species which can operate like paracites in the combined ecosystems of the planet, and therefore also wields the power to make significant changes to the natural systems in such a way that nature responds negatively to the physical actions taken or social and economic habits developed. As I see it, climate change is the end result of destructive actions taken and habits developed by humanity ever since the start of the industrial revolution some 150 – 200 years ago.
As the ecosystems collapse — ever so fast or ever so slowly (the relativity of time, as seen as a social phenomenon, is immense!) — it is nature itself which takes on God-like qualities. All the different species, including mankind, is indeed in for a bumpy ride, as the climate systems of this planet continues to go crazy. The human kind is going to find it necessary to adapt to the climate changes. My guess is that the species is also going to wake up to the urgency of the situation, and find it extremely important, but also strangely difficult, to pave way for at least some measures of mitigating action in response to the rapid change in the climate systems, for example. We are already experiencing that a lot of people are concerned about what is happening to the rainforests of the planet’s tropical zone. Some understanding of the effects of desertification is also to be seen. And the building water crisis do get a few headlines as well. All in all, what I think we are seeing here is the starting point of some kind of desperation on the part of humankind, especially as regarded as an undivided species and a functional whole.
As more and more people become aware of global warming and start to realize what little is being done to avert the catastrophic consequences of manmade climate change, I believe a lot of irrational behaviour on the part of individual human beings is only a natural response. I can easily make this judgement as I see myself and my own irrational behaviour. As it is: I’ve become a low emissions radical: I’m one of those people who have started to resent the very existence of petrol, for example. It’s irrational as hell, but still rational enough, I think, as I’ve got every reason to believe the best and most influential climate science available to mankind has concluded that the consumption of petrol is bad for us in the long run. Although thinking about the exhaust every time I’m inside a bus, a taxi, or a private car must probably be understood as global warming madness, and I shall have to admit that I am currently sick and off with climate change.
I’d also like to say that I’m down with Mount Zion. I can see that, and I ought to become able to deal with it. I’m not at all able to do that in a dignified manner. Not yet, that is. And so long as the communities of human beings around me can only treat me with the fiercest forms of hate available to the imagination of living (and dead) human beings, I’ll definitely continue to feel extremely nervous in the company of old friends and strangers. As it is: I’m hardly even able to talk strainght, as I feel that everything that is close to my heart is way too much for ordinary people to take to heart and understand; therefore I’m also extremely good at shutting my mouth up. I communicate with my fingers, and use my mouth to eat, drink, and take a cigarette from time to time.
I’m not a health freak. Now, I want to say a few words about health freaks. I find it interesting how physical health has become the number one interest of all humanity. At the same time as the future of mankind is somehow in the balance, the future of every individual person’s physical and mental health (whatever that means?) has become the number one concern of all societies. I mean: people are jogging and doing push-ups at a rate which was not the case no more than twenty or thirty years ago. I mean: what’s up?! What’s happening here? Is this just another aspect of climate change insanity? As the climate system is seriously out of balance, and the concept of global warming resides in the back of the mind of each and everyone of us, we are all supposed to stay away from sugar, take nourishment tablets, take vitamins, work out, etc. It is generally assumed (especially by the cronies of the media world) that all normal humans take a real interest in doing a variety of things in order to keeping the body in perfect shape. All this, while at the very same time it is about to become perfectly fair to say (well, put it in writing then) that humanity is about to do itself in by means of a number of overgrowth activities and all forms of environmentally destructive behaviour. I just can’t help myself. I’m finding it almost as amusing as the space travel people’s insistence on the apparent fact that the future of mankind relies on space invasion; and especially now, one might say, as these people have come to realize that global warming might be the alarm clock beeping, and the possible end of all livelihood on planet Earth may actually be in the making.
So what is it with people? Where do we think we are going? To take the car out and meet with our friends at the local health club, of course. Or sit ourselves down in front of the television set, zap onto the Discovery Channel, and follow the advancements of the astronomic search for other Earth-like planets in other solar systems: some planet to which the better-off members of our grandchildren’s generation might be able to fly, conquer and inhabit. While the rest of us are trying to make it extra cosy in the Polar Cities of ours. In Baffinland.
— On top of a planet which has, by then, become a deserted dumpster world of ghost cities, perhaps? — As it is, I’m not able to follow Mr. Bloom’s way of thinking; as for now I can only confirm that I find him a funny creature, just like I find the people at LiftPort Group funny, and slightly intriguing too; as I am thinking of worldviews that are completely alien to me. But then, I’m all so naïve, and have gone bonkers.
I believe that mankind must be seen and accepted as a paracitic species on the face of the earth; the earth understood (here) as the combined ecosystems of the planet, which are the life support systems of the planet; ie. the entire biosphere which is our world. I believe it is fair to conclude that all sincere adults of this planet have at least heard of concepts like global warming and climate change, and acknowledge the fact that these are a couple of the prime issues in our times. I also believe it is fair to say that while many people believe that the future of mankind must have something to do with space invasion is quite large, very few people believe it has anything to do with them personally. On top of all this I believe that the extremely large group of health fanatics of this world form a congregation of potentially evil lifestyle fascist in that they have been infected with some kind of “forever stay fit for fight” virus that has been injected into their sculls by visiting space aliens that have for a very long time — ever since the late 1960s when, to their astonishment, they realized that members of human species were in fact hopping about on top of the Moon — conducted various experiments on human beings as they have long discovered that the species is about to do itself in by full speed means of rapidly growing overpopulation combined with rapidly increasing greenhouse gas emissions, for starters … as a matter of fact: I know that I am mad, and I also know that I am no more than one individual madman in a soon-to-be 7 billion strong league of mad women and men, children, youths, sincere and insincere adults and old people who are all very proud of what they have achieved in life, and hoping to reach the age of 93 before they perish and die, while younger folks expect to be about 130 when their time comes, as new cures are continously being discovered and new drugs, new medications, new health pills, and new youngness creams are continously being invented … I’m thinking I’m a part of a species consisting of fucking creeps and raging hoardes that really share in no other future than that of global warming …