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Warnings from an ancient past
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by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News March 27, 2008
I fervently hope that we humans come to our senses and establish sustainable, peace-loving cultures across the globe before it is too late. The odds of such a thing happening, however, do
not seem good.
The bad news is that we are likely to drive ourselves, and a vast number of other species, to extinction in the geological near term. The good news is that Earth will likely reestablish its climactic balance in a couple of hundred thousand years, and repopulate itself with the kind of abundance of life that existed before humans started on our misadventure of dominator culture and heedless technological innovation.
The bad news is that the niche that humans occupy, that of the intelligent, tool-using terrestrial animal, will most likely be filled again by evolution, leading to a likely replay of our mistakes. The good news is that we can attempt to warn such a future intelligent species and perhaps end this cycle of intelligent self-destruction before it starts again.
Therefore, I propose a Project for a New Geological Era. Concerned people should start now to design and build monuments, likely to survive hundreds of millennia, that attempt to warn such a future species of the twin dangers of tolerating dominator cultures and the heedless technological innovation that accompany them.
It seems worth a try.
If we can send the Voyager satellites off into the deeps of space with plaques describing ourselves in the extremely unlikely event that some extraterrestrial intelligent life form will find them, we can certainly justify attempts to communicate with our successor intelligent species here on earth.
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The bad news is that the niche that humans occupy, that of the intelligent, tool-using terrestrial animal, will most likely be filled again by evolution, leading to a likely replay of our mistakes.
The good news is that we can attempt to warn such a future intelligent species and perhaps end this cycle of intelligent self-destruction before it starts again.
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(Of course, the hidden agenda here is that people put to work erecting
their own tombstones are more likely to reflect on their current behavior.)
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