guymcpherson | Seems to me that all efforts to create awareness about climate change
will be useless. Any effort to make the average individual understand
the problem we are facing today, will be useless. “Limits to growth” is a
good example of failed efforts. The message has been there for 40
years. The required awareness, at a global scale, a necessity to handle
the current situation, is something that seems to me impossible, because
we are, as specie, not smart enough to handle our own power.
Based on my experience, average human has, let´s say, a
six-dimensional perception of the world. Own body, family, house, job,
grocery store (stores in general) and neighborhood. Anything beyond this
limits, it is outside of a truly understanding (something happens out
there, but nobody dares to find out what and how). Nation is a distant
concept understood only because our job and family require some security
provided by the concept of nation. Most people do not understand how
the nation-system works. Water and electricity are there, always
available. Food, at the grocery store. Job, a place to go and do
something for what we receive some fiat money. Garbage, is taken by the
garbage truck, to who knows where. Dirty water goes somewhere. Smoke
vanishes into the air. Outside these limits, nobody knows what is really
going on. Nobody knows how things happen.The mechanisms.We are unable
to connect the dots. Concurrently, nobody knows their footprint and the
effects of it to the rest of this world (present and future). Nobody
cares.
But the world, the biosphere, mankind activity included, is a
thousand times more complex (ten thousand dimensions?). Average people
can handle only six …. We have not been able to model climate. We have
not been able to model the behavior of the ocean (I work with it). We
have not been able to make a robot like in “I robot” (the movie), that
is still Sci-Fi, even though we have been trying for more than 50 years.
We have not been even close to make an organic part of a human body.
Our so respected medical doctors can just help to repair it. The truth
is that the final repair is done by the body itself. We know that
gravity exists, but we do not know what it is. And so on. There are so
many things we do not know how they work. The reality of the average
human is so basic.
