For Humanity to Tackle Climate Change, We Need to Come to Grips With Our Mortality
And none more than the 1%
This Christmas week, we need to revisit not only our belief that the Earth belongs to humanity, but that it is also big enough to match humanity’s infinite greed.
Humanity’s journey to consciousness passed through the stages of us becoming aware of our surroundings, to becoming self-aware by recognizing the other, to then becoming aware of our mortality by observing the death and the destruction of the other.
Subconsciously terrified of our very evident and quite distressing fragility and eventual inevitable mortality, we became determined to out-fox what can not be changed.
We first created a fantastical pantheon of gods, spirits, angels, immortal super-humans, and even extra-terrestrial beings as vessels of our salvation.
Our hubris replaced our terror.
Pretty soon the powers-that-be realized that religion by itself was getting them nowhere, immortality-wise. Belief in various gods and the afterlife was fine but belief did not eradicate mortality. Nor did it quench the ever-present fear inflamed by the fact that despite their wealth, power, and sincerely held beliefs, kings still died and stories of resurrection remained just that…
