...the good news!
ok, so it does look like we will see a climate flip flop in our own lifetime. That is pretty heavy an idea... but i just wanted to state for the record that this may be the best thing to ever happen to us and-- should we choose to accept the mission-- it may be something that one day in the future will be considered as the beginning ...HUGE!
Why the optimism? Well, in my own personal theosophy, there just wouldn't be so many amazing technical advances and greening of culture, if we weren't going to make it (ok i'll go back into the corner with my violin in a few seconds), that would just be too much of a cosmic waste... but for those that chose a more 'scientific' approach, lets say it's because climate change (esp. climate flips) is directly linked to human evolution. So, the way I see it, the closer we get to the flip flop the closer we are to evolving.
about 10 years ago, i got a copy of this book 
about this link (between Cch & Evo), and was sooo fired up about it that i trekked across the country to meet the guy who wrote it. Professor WIlliam Calvin. We chatted for hours at length about this evolution... he wasn't so sure we'll make it saying that it usually takes a species 50 years minimum to adapt, but me ever the teary-eyed optimist kept pushing.... eventually we got to the bottom line, that this time around it's not our posture that will change, or a new tail, but our societal structures that will evolve if we are not to do the other thing that happens when a climate flips (those who don't evolve eventually end up in museums collecting dust). It's our food manufacturing & delivery systems, our shelter systems and of course our energy production (among others... I pray that we will lose roads as well).... My homespun interpretation also adds that we will have a huge shift in perception finally seeing the whole before assuming we know or are all that special...
But when i look at how fast things are changing, I get giddy thinking that yes! this is going to happen! to us! what an amazing time to be alive!! Lateley there has been more talk about this evolution link and no longer from the hallowed halls of academia but even from the mainstreamers... I mean how much proof do we need?
we can have it! the organic food-growing agribots, the regrowing of rainforests (no, they don't have to disappear), and all the other goodies that a highly evolved species has to play with. That is our future and no one can tell me otherwise.
thanks!
~L
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