The Orwellian rules-based Climate

[Brenda]

Cross-posted in GD, hah, see if anyone notices it.

By Andrew Glikson

“History is a nightmare from which I am trying to wake” (James Joyce)



Figure 1. Extinctions CC from: The five mass extinctions in Earth History. The rate of the current rise of greenhouse
gas levels and thereby temperatures is higher by more than an order of magnitude than that of previous
mass extinctions. (Figures 11.2, 11.5). Glikson. A.Y., 2023 The Trials of Gaia.

War ─ the mass sacrifice of young generations throughout history, culminating in the barbarism of empires such as the Roman “Pax Romana”, represents the repeated collapse of sanity with transient intervals such as the League of Nations between WWI and the impotent United Nations. More recent bloodsheds such as the Korean, Viet Nam, Rwandan and Middle Eastern wars, along with global heating and nuclear proliferation, herald the collapse of a species dominated by tribalism and the hubris of the 24-hour media cycle ─ A tale full of sound and fury told by an idiot signifying nothing (Macbeth, Shakespeare).

The potential consequences of a nuclear war appear to have escaped the mainstream media attention. There is little evidence of peace negotiations between the major adversaries and measures of averting accidental conflagrations, whether human error or the failure of a computer chip, have been minimized. Having betrayed the prospect of a peaceful future, the warring parties keep investing in $trillion-scale re-armament, covered by sophisticated terms such as self-defence, stability and the rules-based international order.

Alas, a majority of the world’s 8.1 billion humans is only partly aware of the looming demise of human civilization in the wake of its near to 10 millennia history and of the mass extinction of advanced species, allowing the “powers that be” to perpetrate the biggest crime against humanity and nature in history (Figure 2).

Figure 2. Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare (1781), in the Institute of Fine Arts, Detroit. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Henry_Fuseli_-_The_Nightmare.JPG

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[CoopersDad]

1. "advanced species" could be termed "less experienced species"

Our species' existence is a speck on the evolutionary timescale, "lower" order species seem to survive what would end the rest of us.

OK, we're the species most capable of ruining our entire planet. But, "advanced"?

No, I think that we're so adept at ruining things that we're first in line for the grand correction coming this way, and deservedly so.

[Brenda]

2. Yes, it is that way. nt

[NNadir]

3. This doesn't seem to be the place to ask for coherence.

I'm sure it had some intent; but I really am disinterested in what it might be.