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This incarnation has been confusing in the extreme. There seem to be extensive errors in the historicity transcription. Benign Wicca should be the dominant religion at this juncture. Malignant monotheism should have been exposed as a sham many centuries ago. A worldwide ban on self administered drugs is an attempt to repudiate the original human religion. That's religion, not politics. Monotheists fantasize the drug war.
Communism defeated? On the very eve of planetary ecological catastrophe? A random decision greed-driven economy is touted as ethically superior? Saying the economy can't be controlled at the moment a common plan and common goals are requisites for survival, is bizarre. Nature is nonprofit, still may not be driven off the market. Life is the real value, phony evaluations are pretenses.
Countries? What about countries? Borders are fake. I have a border dispute two centuries old, almost. Swept under the rug, hidden, covered up by secrecy. That's how it all is. Nations are legal fictions; legality is the formality, to which alternatives can be supressed, by force of arms.
Space too. Thirty years of withdrawal from people going to planets is not seen as failure. The sight was foreshortened to the phony trumped up economic struggle, oh so much more important that rich people can continue to have advantage. That the destiny of our species may have been jeapordized in this squabble is ignored. We may not have gone to space, but we stopped communism. The dinosaurs may never have developed a meteor defense, but they stopped. We may have killed our fucking selves, by insisting on government-protected free enterprise as the only proper way to live. This planet's about to burn, and we don't have a good way off it. Money can't drive the future, for money can't see the future. Investment is a bet of past confidence. Economy such as this cannot steer to avoid future obstacles, not even manifest catastrophes, for the eyes of money are perpetually turned backwards: seeing the past.
What we gotta do, is this and that. Whatever. It does not matter, because it won't happen. We have lost all chance; it looks like we're not going to pull through this one. Our last chance to stay alive, may have been lost when we failed to overthrow the government in 1968, in the USA, France, Mexico, etc. We are now stuck, as a species, with the tree-cutting robot automaton of a petroleum-fueled economy, determined to kill all others to stay in power. That's not what we need; we need to stop burning carbon, and stop cutting trees, then perhaps we can live. It doesn't matter, because it ain't gonna happen. The creative brains left off the direction of this society in the year 1967, in a dispute over drug prohibition. No fundamental change has been possible in society's direction since that time, because no one with any useful imagination has been near to the social controls. Walk out was followed by lock out.
Drug users are not welcomed into the leadership of society, nor to anyplace they might get hold of a communications channel, to say hey, drugs really are religion, and always were. For this reason, society is reflexive and lacking brains. Imagination withered, and economy will not substitute. Psychoactive drug use was coincident with the development of consciousness, which makes a drug-prohibiting society inherently stupid. The ego image of collective Western society, Graeco- Roman heritage, and all that, is seriously flawed from its being a synthetic image, false on every test for reality as measured by historical fact.
The classical Greeks didn't think of themselves as a pioneering experimental society. They saw themselves as being at the closing act of the world, ancient traditions degenerated so long that the history was scarcely visible. They saw the world as an old, old place, of which they were not at the center, but far to the edge of where significant things happened. Their very deities were reshaped, polished and stylized, and presented to the world as a product. Things we hear from them about the previous history of the world are severely distorted, for they were not the ones keeping the real records, nor did they live where the real records were kept. What they had in common with the other identities conquered by the Romans, includes having longer histories, a more cogent language, a more accurate calendar, more creativity, more and better literature, and in short a higher level of consciousness than the Roman empire. The picture "Rome Conquers Greece" resembles degeneration, not progress. Had Carthage defeated Rome, the world would now have a greater continuity of consciousness with the ancient world, and probably have access to the written account of what we now presume to label "prehistory". The world would be smarter without the Roman Empire, Christianity, and its effective censorship of preexisting literature.
In the beginning, there was the hemp plant, with which humanity has co- evolved for so long that there are specific marijuana receptors in the human brain. Marijuana smoking implements precede writing, in fact as a direct predecessor. Early drug trade and religious development are precise geographic parallels. Language changes follow drug trade routes also, conventionally interpreted as cultural conquest. That's where we're coming out of. Drug dealers are all ministers. Outlaws, preferably not, because that doesn't work. Sennecharib of Assyria tried that one, heard any news from Nineveh lately? We're missing out on a couple thousand years of written records because Western civilization has a bad habit of censorship. The drinking culture that followed the smoking culture: one smokes to remember, one drinks to forget.
At last, here we are, in an impossible position. We cannot overthrow the petroleum burning culture, because it has defended itself with ultimate violence. Since it will continue while it can, we are doomed. It is not possible for humans to burn all the petroleum reserves, for before that the surface of the planet will become too hot for human habitation. Our economy has killed us.
The critical event in the greenhouse crisis will be a mass conflagration of the Northern forests across Canada, Alaska, Siberia, and Scandinavia. At that point the air will contain too much carbon for the trend to be reversed by our utmost endeavor. The boreal forests are the touchpoint, because carbon released in the polar zone fails to mix with global circulation rapidly enough. Therefore, a localized carbon buildup in the North polar region can reach extreme heat trapping conditions within a season, crossing the threshold at which fire in a given forest becomes more probable than no fire, then the whole cap of the planet goes up in smoke. After that the fires sporadically creep down the continental forest, in Siberia and Canada, and soon most of the North temperate forests are lost. That's not the end of our battle with air carbon, but it's the knockout punch. After that, we lose, faster or slower. We didn't wreck just our part of the planet, we wrecked the whole thing. We thought we had things almost figured out, but most of what we thought was wrong.
Sex and youth. Reactionary Victorian prudishness has progressively raised the age at which it is lawful to have sex, by 50% in the twentieth century, from 12 to 18 years old. Human evolution has meanwhile been moving rapidly in the opposite direction, the age of menarche declining from about 12 to about 9 years of age. Our society is wrong again in its judgment, in diametric opposition to the facts. Humans should be having sex earlier and not later, since prime female fertility occurs early in life, and wasting the first third of it on superstitious prejudice is criminal. We're headed for a severe population collapse, when weather alteration shows it's a serious matter. We can't waste the fertility reserve in our gene pool, on mistaken ideas about how old is socially acceptable to have sex. We're just another stupid species, but let's not prove we're terminally stupid.
That's your monotheism, wrong about everything, in every way it's possible to be wrong. Sex and drugs: society has made fundamentally wrong choices about these fundamental issues, and has frozen into an utterly inflexible posture. We are past the time window in which change was possible. Revolution around 1968 would have been about right, to start working on the salvation of the world as a whole. Forests planted then would have been maturing now, in the first generation of trees, giving us carbon storage now when we need it. Instead our ungovernable economy is pressing for every tree to be cut down in tropical rain forests. We don't need trees for fuel since we have oil, right? What else could we possibly need trees for? Lumber is the commodity, standing trees are just an asset.
Here pricing is severely at odds with value. Value in verity can be nothing other than natural value: these tree items while living in a standing undisturbed forest, are the primary means the biosphere uses to keep carbon out of the air, thus keeping this planet cool enough for other types of life, such as humans and ultimately tube worms, to live here. This should receive a value priority from any self-proclaimed thinking species, be it ourselves or tube worms, whose continued existence depends on the undisturbed condition of these forests, and this value priority should be such as to make the concept "speculative investment value of forest lands" a fucking symptom of criminal stupidity. This forest (right here) is one of the main things enabling us to live elsewhere on this planet, so for that reason you are not allowed to set a price on it, nor to say how much you would pay, for its disassembled components, if someone else were to take it apart, as if you were making an offer, for someone to do so. Bang.
World communism, all at once, is the only rational choice humanity may now adopt, because for the first time we have something to do together, and if we don't all get together and do it we're all going to die, after which the biosphere may, or may not, be able to regulate the air carbon levels in time to save the existence of liquid water and life on this planet, though it's doubtful. World communism which can sweep out the monotheist nark-infested syndicate running the world, and its abstract delusion of money. Natural value here must outweigh price; we must determine as a species, that lumber we can replace, and firewood we can replace, in almost all instances, so forest products become generally contraband, together with petroleum products and coal. No capitalist government, nor any set of market-oriented governments, could take these steps, for the investors who direct government activities must express their contrary interests. This makes these essential life-sustaining measures incapable of enactment under the bourgeois United Nations, so direct decision by the people informed is needed. This must initiate the final phase of the revolution, in which money and governments are discarded. Such conclusion is elegant, because it is forced of necessity, an emergency measure incapable of being politically motivated. An anarchist scientist such as Prince Peter Kropotkin might have appreciated that nicety.
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Polar Fire
Circumpolar winds isolate the polar air mass from the general planetary circulation, so a diffusion boundary near the arctic circle slows turnover of air components, into and out of the polar air. Carbon dioxide and methane enrichment of polar air takes almost a year to reach equilibrium with planetary air, giving a diffusion half life of a few months. The polar region has several carbon reservoirs susceptable to rapid release: organic material trapped in ice, subject to decay on exposure; forest trees killed by thawing permafrost, subject to decay; peat marshes; methane hydrate beds shielded by permafrost; and of immediate concern, standing forests which will burn. In a greenhouse heating trend such as the present, which is magnified at the poles, all of these carbon reservoirs will tend to release carbon gases. Some can do so very fast. The Arctic has in fact changed into a net carbon source in recent years, from being a net sink. It is thus mandatory to study the effect of an extraordinary episode of carbon release in the polar region.
An impulse enrichment of carbon in the polar region would cause cascade carbon release from some of the other heat-sensitive reservoirs, and this extra carbon gas will all stay within the circumpolar region. The heating effect of carbon dioxide excess is immediately magnified by water vapor, with great leverage since the vapor pressure of water near the freezing point is normally very low. With these positive feedbacks, especially if there has been excess carbon enrichment carried forward from the previous year, a cap of thermal insulation could form over the pole in short order, giving us an anomalous climate phenomonon of a relatively hot pole. This CO2 cap could increase the incidence of fires in the boreal forests. Fires are made of mostly CO2 and water vapor, greenhouse gases which trap heat and lead to more forest fires, because the incidence of forest fires is very strongly dependent on the ambient temperature. With an inversion layer overhead strongly reflective of heat, the circumpolar boreal forests would effectively ignite at a surprisingly modest increase of surface temperature, only warming enough to dry out their foliage to make them vulnerable to randomly-caused ignition sources such as lightning, or heat sources from decay processes.
A forest does not have to be heated to its flash point, to cause it to burn. Raising its temperature enough to dry out its foliage, increases its statistical chance that it will fall to one of the potential ignition sources present within it. By raising the temperature, this probability the forest will burn will approach certainty, long before the air temperature approaches the actual ignition temperature of the wood. A circumpolar fire storm results, because the released carbon accumulates around the pole and doesn't leave it. The fire storm would cause its own short-term weather pattern to emerge, drawing inflow of winds from more southerly lands, still the weight of carbon gases would accumulate over the Northern skies faster than these gases would drift South. An interval of fire generated weather near the North Pole would cause carbon release from among the other carbon reservoirs in the area, in a chain reaction.
This sequence of events may not be sufficient to breach the Greenland ice sheet, but would certainly provide the fresh water influx to block the North Atlantic Deep Water sinking, which would semipermanently switch the Atlantic steering currents. This would kill the European forests by freezing, and freshly killed forests present another great fire hazard.