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COP26 is bound to fail and so are all other Climate Emergency actions… Or… Life on the cliff’s edge
Part II — Is there a way out?
In Part I we explored a number of reasons why the COP26 and all other actions to address the Climate Emergency are bound to fail and the necessity of adopting a non-anthropocentric stand point to possibly find how to extricate ourselves from the present, dire global predicament.
In Part II, from this non-anthropocentric stand point, we now explore what avenues remain open.
EL’s long term dynamic and humankind’s sole remaining ecological niche
Given the certainty of impending failure examined so far, what can we learn then about humankind’s prospect, from EL’s standpoint?
EL is about 3.8 Billion years old (possibly up to 4.3 Billion years old). It’s a sample of one – the only case of life we know of. What we know so far, is that given a star, in our case the Sun, and a rocky planet with a lot of liquid water located at a suitable distance from that star, in our case the Earth, given time, under the energy flow from the Sun, life will emerge. Keep pumping solar energy into the Earth system and life will complexify in the symbiotic, non-dualistic, non-hierarchical ways reviewed…
