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Mazzie Daius
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Does the transition of man from kin group organization to multi-tribe group organization mean the end to mankind when the earth evovles IAC with man's activities?
Australia Shows Us the Road to Hell https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/09/opinion/australia-fires.html?
Paul Krugman writes
When we were family organized, even kin organized we could effectively operate in a strong man mode when necessary. But Germany and Japan and Italy and Spain and Russia (USSR version) put that to lie through the twentieth century. None survived, all collapsed. Strong men were rejected because their staying power wasn't that of a more resilient well informed cooperative organization.
Now that organization is being challenged by slow moving environmental catastrophe, climate change, in the making. Our reactions tend to be late. In this case maybe too late for us to come through it as a species.
I invite your comments and takes on what I have sketched. Is it correct, are we doomed, will we crumble under the pressure of slow developing disaster? Or do you see man adapting to yet another challenge, this time as a survivor in a multi-tribal world again denying destiny of species to becoming extinct.
Australia Shows Us the Road to Hell https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/09/opinion/australia-fires.html?
Paul Krugman writes
In a rational world, the burning of Australia would be a historical turning point. After all, it’s exactly the kind of catastrophe climate scientists long warned us to expect if we didn’t take action to limit greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, a 2008 report commissioned by the Australian government predicted that global warming would cause the nation’s fire seasons to begin earlier, end later, and be more intense — starting around 2020.Furthermore, though it may seem callous to say it, this disaster is unusually photogenic. You don’t need to pore over charts and statistical tables; this is a horror story told by walls of fire and terrified refugees huddled on beaches.
So this should be the moment when governments finally began urgent efforts to stave off climate catastrophe.
When we were family organized, even kin organized we could effectively operate in a strong man mode when necessary. But Germany and Japan and Italy and Spain and Russia (USSR version) put that to lie through the twentieth century. None survived, all collapsed. Strong men were rejected because their staying power wasn't that of a more resilient well informed cooperative organization.
Now that organization is being challenged by slow moving environmental catastrophe, climate change, in the making. Our reactions tend to be late. In this case maybe too late for us to come through it as a species.
I invite your comments and takes on what I have sketched. Is it correct, are we doomed, will we crumble under the pressure of slow developing disaster? Or do you see man adapting to yet another challenge, this time as a survivor in a multi-tribal world again denying destiny of species to becoming extinct.