What If...A New Global Option Part 1

This video offers an introduction to the premier global strategy, as
proposed by visionary engineer Buckminster Fuller: the linking of
renewable energy resources between nations around the world. Featured
are the benefits of reduced pollution and poverty; increased trade,
cooperation and peace; and population stabilization. Originally
produced in 1991, John Denver introduces this compelling global
strategy.

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• Renewable
• Energy
• Global
• Issues
• Electricity
• Climate
• Change
• Sustainable
• Development
• Buckminster
• Fuller
• GENI

[squidcreek]

"If global leaders..when people are ready:"

What I meant by this was that 'leaders' in the world can claim that mankind has failed to achieve harmony with the world and is on a course towards self-destruction. They could use this presumption to enforce more control and restriction on peoples rights. How do they know that's not what's stunting their very development and causing the problems, in a cyclical way? Maybe they intend it! Anyway, I didn't plan on a debate. This is youtube!

[kmarinas86]

Ok, let me see if I understand you.

"If global leaders decide that e = too low at this time to deal with the tests posed by nature, then what does that mean? It means nothing. Nature will decide when one is to be tested. That test may come far into the future at a time when people are ready:"

So basically you're saying that people's evolution should catch up with their technology, and that Hi-Tech is counterproductive if people are not nice. So "destiny" would have it, for better or worse?

[squidcreek]

Is it more complicated than I thought?

If I put a huge flock of birds in a dark cave for a few million years, and assuming they thrived, their eyes in all probability would have adapted to the new low light, or they would have evolved some simple radar - whatever it took to survive.

If you are not careful when considering the environment, it won't matter..

[squidcreek]

I never said it was. You put that word there. I'd have called it shorthand. People are changing and it's quite possibly stunted mutation rather than natural evolution at the genetic level for the most part. You can read up on genetics papers if you're interested, but really common sense often suffices (least it did).

A man could adapt to develop innate evil to con his adversaries and live another day, just as he could develop a sixth/seventh sense to understand nature in more advanced ways,

[kmarinas86]

squidcreek: "e^ = change in evolutionary state of that person"

Explain how this is scientific.

[squidcreek]

That's an oversimplified way of looking at it.If you're so sure. Bring famine upon yourself for a while and see if it makes a good experiment.

[kmarinas86]

"if there is one is that it seems to bring out the worst in people at the wrong time"

Death? Famine? Destruction?

If you did not mention any of these specifically, then you have no idea what you are talking about.

[squidcreek]

I will say no more on this matter except to say that: If there is a force at work trying to shape humanity, it is trying to destroy humanity, a pointless endeavor. Any idiot can step on a sand castle but few can make a really ornate looking one.

[squidcreek]

Furthermore, e^ doesn't necessarily mean positive change at all. The way humans live in the world today is backwards. People don't live according to their genetic makeup. This means that future evolution may be stunted by the current path - mutation. One size most certainly does not fit all. If society continues down this path, people will end up behind the apes, if not already. Instead of amateur science fares, we have people fighting bare knuckle in octagonal cages. We can prevent Mad Max now

[squidcreek]

My problem with the global strategy that exists today if there is one is that it seems to bring out the worst in people at the wrong time. If it is a test to show how weak we are when put under stresses and strain, so that we can learn to handle such stresses and strains in the future, then the logic is flawed, as it doesn't account for the change in evolutionary development that would better equip us to triumph over such tests. I think it's better to leave it to destiny.