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How many corners on a fence post?

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I read a couple of blogs this week that moved me sort of. I left comments of course. I like to keep my comments friendly. The post topics and some morning conversation have me thinking out loud. Of course there is little point in having an opinion if you never share it.

Today started, or at least breakfast started with some talk around global warming. The folks I was with are of strong opinion that global warming is something cooked up by some environmental nuts who happened to get lucky and noticed. When I first started hearing about global warming I was tempted to agree with them. Since then I learned how to think, and I have to side with the nuts that dreamt global warming up.

My reason why global warming is a fact is so simple that many people miss the forests for the trees. I hope this is not an old thought rehashed…. Our Earth is supporting (as far as we know) a record population of people, somewhere over ten billion people. All ten billion of us are perking along at 98.6 degrees plus or minus a degree or two. Trade the animal herds we killed off one to one for people and we still have more mammals on earth than ever before heating things up. Add a few simple things like any gas powered motors, a few trillion light bulbs, and televisions/computers and we have some major heat being generated.

The first blog I read was about organized religion and a study that shows that people who have organized religion are happier, healthier, and live longer than those that don’t. Of course they do. It does not take a study to figure that out. How nice it is to blame whatever happens in your life, your fault or not, on something else.

What peace of mind that provides never having to be responsible for you own actions. My thought on this is God does not need us. We are what we are, and we should do the best we can. If that is not good enough for God, then God produced faulty humans, and the program should be scrapped. I don’t see that happening.

Another blog I read pointed out yet another study. This one said that most people interviewed thought they were okay, but people around them needed various levels of help, mostly with their heads. I know for sure I am all right, but I am not to sure about you. This study may be right. Unfortunately, it is a Phoenix study and rises from the ashes dressed in new feathers every few years. I believe Solomon mentions it in his musings, or maybe it was Aristotle, or Siddhartha, or maybe it was on The Simpson’s?

I think that covers everything blog topic that that has me thinking this week, except one. The last and questionably the best was a post about a relationship. Relationships are tough things, especially if you are a young man. Women for the most part have no trouble having a relationship with one man.

Young men on the other hand, have a very hard time being with or faithful to one woman. Evolution made the average man want to have sex with as many women as possible. Lots of sex ensures the best chance for survival of the species, for everything from disease to disaster.

Women on the other hand depend on Men to provide, and get a little picky when a man strays. My thoughts on the possibly straying man post, is it is not going to improve over time. If you think he crossing your acceptable line now, be assured he won’t improve over the next decade or two. A little hurt now ending a relationship is a lot better than a lot hurt over the next years.

Oops, one last blog I read about anger. If you are angry and do not wish to be angry, let it go. If you are anything you do not want to be, let it go. The best time to start redefining you and your life is this moment. Do not expect t change in ten minutes though, the longer you hold onto something, the longer it takes to leave you. Anger is no exception.

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Lethal Injection to Global Warming to Dune

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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?

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