The secret to a better humanity
A perspective
1. Eat less meat (or no meat). Giving up meat reduces your food-related carbon emissions by around 30%, possibly as much as 50%. As less land area is needed to feed people on veggies, less animal production frees up huge areas of land that could be used for enhancing biodiversity and/or climate change mitigation.
Many environmental observers realise and accept that we are doomed.
Climate change is almost certainly unstoppable. We have painted many ecosystems and species into a corner and as climate change worsens, some of those environmental niche corners will be obliterated.
Continue reading “Accidental apocalypse and Noah’s Ark 2.0”
An ethical dilemma of our time is – is it ok to eat meat or should we go vegetarian or even vegan?
I am a vegetarian, bordering on vegan. The people that I argue with over this issue almost always take the line that it’s natural for us and part of our biological heritage to include meat in our diets. They then often go on to justify their position further by saying that if we didn’t eat animals then all those millions of cows, pigs, sheep and chickens wouldn’t exist at all and so surely it’s better that they live their lives, even if those lives are not great, and that we eat them. Continue reading “Should humanity go vegan?”
Well, I had a fabulous Glastonbury this year. It’s always good to work with Greenpeace.
One of my readers even bought along a copy of my book to sign. I have to say… that actually felt quite special.
Here’s the book on Amazon UK
…and on Amazon US
Happy reading 🙂
My book is also available as a download on my home page.
Here’s another chapter of my book. The point of this chapter is to show how we need to overcome our outdated psychological response to the environment.
Enjoy…
Earlier on I discussed humanity’s attitude towards to environment. It’s now time to return to that.
As already set out, the environment has never really been too much of a problem for us. True, life has been hard here and there with a possible drying of the climate, forcing us down from the trees in the first place, or the difficulty of the coming and going of ice-ages forcing our migration. It could have been that such environmental changes are what forced us into a situation where the Next Level could initiate in the first place and start us out on our path of uniqueness.
Ecosystems are about balance with all the component species fitting together and working together to keep the system flowing and turning over. Before we set off down the route of the Next Level, humans would also have been in balance with the African ecosystem. As we started to become more sophisticated with the initiation of the Next Level with better tools, intellect and better survivability, we started to loose that balance.
Continue reading “Sustainability, sustainability, sustainability”
When has the environment ever been a problem for any one species? Apart from the problems of being eaten, dying of a disease or being burnt to the ground in a forest fire if you happen to be a tree. Assuming that your species continues to exist, even if that might not necessarily include you, when has the environment ever been a problem? In terms of incoming nutrients, water, food and resources, when has the environment ever a problem? Generally, there’s always more coming from somewhere. The ecosystems are, generally, in balance. There might be patches of drought meaning less water and less food, but it usually gets better. Ecosystems do change over time otherwise new species wouldn’t evolve or others go extinct. But it’s usually a very slow process with little change between the generations.
Continue reading “The environment – How humans relate to it – Psychology pitfall”
We often here people like Nigel Farage speak out against high levels of immigration.
Common phrases he uses go along the lines of “X number of people enter the country each year, which is equivalent to the population of City X.” Or – “We’re adding a city the size of Birmingham to the UK every few years, adding strain to our roads, health care and education systems.”
In relation to Farage and people who use this argument, three things are going on here, concerning:
Sustainability,
Capitalism and,
Racism
Could it be that societies are getting meaner across the world?
Are racists less afraid than they used to be?
You get the feeling that Social Darwinism is becoming more accepted as just a ‘fact of life.’
Social Darwinism applies some of the principles of biological natural selection to how human society operates.
Are you having doubts about your religious faith?
I’m here to reassure you, that that’s fine. There’s a solution.
To give you a taste of my book, here’s the section on conformity:
Conform to the norm
Conformity, as discussed earlier, is an important part of what keeps society together. Back with the caveman, it would have been vital. Way before we were human it would have been vital. Whilst it’s still good to be part of a society and feel like you belong, conforming to what is normal or what is expected is increasingly becoming a problem, creating confusion and anxiety, in a society that is becoming increasingly complex.