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I was reading a very well thought out and well presented blog post arguing Lethal Injection. When I read something serious I read first to understand, and then weigh what is being said, while keeping any rebuttals on the side. I could not find any place to rebuttal, it was excellent writing. I am sure many writers around the world wish they could think, and write as well as the author did.

After I left the blog, a thought started in my mind about the future of the human race and if Lethal Injection will be needed in another century. I think what started this thought was just a few minutes earlier I was scanning the television channels, and saw Dune was showing. Dune is a sixties sci-fi movie from a book series that takes place in the year 10190 on a planet far far away from here.

It was the date that started me thinking. In the sixties people were worrying about the world too. They were worried about the pesticides being used, and how we were killing our way up the food chain because they did not break down. The closer the pesticides came to ourselves, the more concentrated they were in the animal that became food at that level. The California Condor led the way on the protection list, as it looked like we had killed it off forever.

Frank Herbert wrote the Dune series during this time, and that is what had me thinking about the future first. Here we were killing off our planet and Frank Herbert was writing a book that takes place some eight thousand years in the future. He must have had access to more optimism at that time than most people did.

Back to the Lethal Injection blog entry, and the global warming thought that jumped into my thinking. I wonder if we are being too limited by thinking about global warming, and global warming only? Maybe we are letting our scope of focus be too small?

Perhaps if we plan on being around to see the year 10190 come to pass maybe it is time to think a little larger than just the global warming issue? We in our smugness as the most advanced brain on the planet have a problem with our individual ego’s. It is possible that global warming could wipe out the human race, every little bit of it, and most of the other life on our earth.

Our ego’s do not let us see this fact, we like to think if global warming does us in collectively the world stops turning, and the lights go out. Not so I am afraid, if we cease to exist something will survive. Even if it is a specialized bacteria that feeds on volcanic sand, something will survive.

I am thinking that we need to take this time to think about our future, regardless of whether global warming is caused by humans or not. We have had some pretty big scares as a world since we have become so ‘advanced’ in our science. There is no need to generate a list of scares. No matter what your world concerns are, there are many lists and arguments supporting both sides of the worlds major concerns.

If the worlds population in general thinks there is no problem, and we will be here in the year,10190, good for us. If the world decides we need to start tending our world a little better than we have been, good for us too. I think we are being too narrow in our focus of one BIG issue when we have environmental disasters waiting to happen all over the world.

We are already tending our world in a way because we are the voice for most of the worlds population already. Those countries that are plugged in and turned on, are making decisions that effect us all. Will we be here in the year 10190, or will Frank Herbert’s future sci-fi vision and words be returned to the earth because no one will be alive to read them?

Comments (1) Jan 21 2008