Capitalism, unrestrained by the requirements
of Planetary life support systems, is guaranteed mutually assured destruction.
The mounting disruptions in their wake reveal the progressive deterioration
of our planetary life - support systems.
A cynical view suggests that all the talk about the recession fostering frugality, living within one's means, and the virtues of helping and being helped by one's community is just talk, and that what's actually happening is that people are building up a deep well of perceived deprivation, a backlog of buying, such that when the economy recovers we'll see another binge of overconsumption, carrying us farther still from a satisfying life and speeding the collapse
of planetary life support systems.
The ongoing process
of planetary life and of cultural change is rushing on like a driverless juggernaut.
In this rapidly changing world, our reverence for the Earth will determine the fate of the entire community
of planetary life.
Within the continuum
of planetary life there have evolved many interconnected systems, each of them in symbiotic relationship with its environment.
Whereas the ancients simply had to obey the dictates of their gods (as known within their traditions), we now find that, as a very important part of nature ourselves, an increasing measure of responsibility lies upon our species for the future
of all planetary life.
In his breathtaking conceptualization
of planetary life, he saw the emergence of the human species and the subsequent globalization of the planet not in terms of the conquest of the globe by Christianity but as the logical consequence of an ongoing evolutionary process.
What is my place in the adventure
of planetary life?
At the very time we humans have been learning more about the ecology
of all planetary life, we have been discovering to our horror how much we are now upsetting the delicate balances in the living systems of the ecosphere.
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Was there an intellectual cosmological order for the cellular realms
of living cosmological components to become ever evolving cellular realms ending upon this celestial shorelines»
planetary cosmology as being physical realms
of mankind's cellular embodiments?
I thank the powers
of the Godly ordained to have made my sub-microbial celestially built body and the social generalist ambiances leavening for giving me an afforded
life to be so
lived out upon an Omni - celestial portion
of planetary worldly passions felt by self - loathing critiques
of renounced meager reckoning!
But there is also the promise
of a unified
planetary society
living in harmony with nature, using the natural resources
of the earth for the benefit
of all the earth's
living creatures, and opening up prospects
of human adventures never before possible.
God and all
of God's generational trees gave to the celestial realm,
living cellular cosmologies
of megalithic proportions wherever, upon each and every possibilities
of celestial
planetary places that can be found worthy
of establishing cellular cosmologies for megalithic celled monoliths
of living abundances.
This «cooking» process was
of utmost importance because it produced the chemicals necessary for the evolution
of planetary bodies such as our earth, and thus it made possible also the eventual appearance
of life and human beings.
The transfer
of this
life to earth Many scientists have objected that the generation
of life can not occur, or have occurred, outside
of a
planetary environment, where heavier elements are plentiful.
The Emersonian mystic «consciousness
of the divine
life flowing through and around him, making him one with the Godhead,» fought in him with the Calvinistic theocrat; and Calvin won; the new churchman, opening the doors
of the sanctuary to all seekers after peace, contradicted in him the loyalist to ancient discipline, for whom the company
of the faithful was the selected band, the trained shock troops
of the kingdom
of God in a rebellious
planetary province.
All
of these scientific hypotheses boil down to first there was an
planetary mass covered with water and providing the correct conditions for chemical reactions to create a simple organic compound from which
life was formed.
In contrast, Immanuel Kant and Pierre de Laplace argued that
planetary development was part
of a normal process to be expected in the
life of almost every star: they assumed the young sun was surrounded by a thin lens - shaped gaseous envelope (solar nebula) which later condensed into planets.
• to develop a lifestyle consistent with preserving the balance
of the
planetary eco-system on which all
living creatures depend;
I refer to the notion
of a
planetary society
living at peace with nature and with God organized in such a way as to provide all persons with equal access to the available means
of human fulfillment.
The culture in which the global society finds its cohesion needs to be able to draw all human groups and individuals into some form
of shared
life, a degree
of commonality that allows for harmony between peoples and also with the
planetary environment.
To me this appears the most satisfactory interpretation
of the present state
of Life on the surface
of the earth; despite a regrettable recrudescence
of racialism and nationalism which, impressive though it may be, and disastrous in its effect upon our private post-war
lives, seems to have no scientific importance in the overall process: for the reason that any human tendency to fragmentation, regardless
of its extent and origin, is clearly
of an order
of magnitude inferior to the
planetary forces (geographic, demographic, economic and psychic) whose constantly and naturally growing pressure must sooner or later compel us willy - nilly to unite in some form
of human whole organized on the basis
of human solidarity.
At this point it must be recognized that the interdependence
of all
life in relationship to the
planetary environment places special obligations and limitations on the present generation.
Men must think
of the whole range
of biosocial conditions which pertain to the realization
of the potentialities
of individuals in a justly ordered society
living in harmonious union with the
planetary environment.
This credo and strategy must be developed in alliance with secular futurists and other persons who are committed to a vision
of a
planetary brotherhood,
living at peace with nature and with God, in which all people have equal access to the material resources
of the world.
Planetary life started with the simplest
living cells and amoebae - like creatures, yet out
of them, through increasing complexity, our own species eventually evolved.
I can only give expression to my own intuition that this possible emergence
of a new consciousness should be given shape by a utopian vision
of a
planetary brotherhood at peace with nature and with God, united with all
of life in the enjoyment
of its potentialities.
We would be strong enough to accept in a selfless fashion the burden
of responsibility now laid upon us for the future
of our world and all its
planetary life.
All that we (our bodies) are is as being an atomized cosmos
of cellular formed mini universes
living upon a
planetary cosmology
of atomized bi-products made by celestial stabilities created in sequential productivities
of sedimentary allowances made from the very beginnings
of cosmological creations sanctifications afforded breathes
of the cosmic being our universe is found being within!
This idea
of the
planetary totalization
of human consciousness (with its unavoidable corollary, that wherever there are
life - bearing planets in the Universe, they too will become encompassed, like the Earth, with some form
of planetized spirit) may at first sight seem fantastic: but does it not exactly correspond to the facts, and does it not logically extend the cosmic curve
of molecularization?
The events we are witnessing and undergoing are unquestionably bound up with the general evolution
of terrestrial
life; they are
of planetary dimensions.
If we begin with a vision
of planetary brotherhood
living in ways that allow for the perpetuation
of the human species on earth, then the specifics can be worked on.
We
live in a world where social morality must recognize that
planetary society is approaching the ecological limits
of the earth.
My basic appeal is for the development
of a vision and a set
of values appropriate to the emerging biological realities
of the
planetary society as an essential ingredient in accomplishing the political transformation that the fulfillment
of life for all
of earth's people demands.
This message is common these days - in church as well as «new age» literature - that we as a species (and more importantly as individuals) presently need to raise our spiritual connection to the Source
of Life, individually and on a
planetary level, if we wish to survive.
In his infinite wisdom, he has created such intricately complex, and self sustaining
living beings, and
planetary systems that could not (even by any strech
of imagination or clever postulation) be honestly construed to be an accident.
Moreover, some aspects
of life lag far behind others in their distance from the most advanced edges
of the rush toward the
planetary society.
The winds are the breath
of earth, and
planetary life depends upon our atmosphere.
The fact that people around the world expect the UN to deliver (which is why they are, so often, disappointed when it fails); the fact that we now expect states to work collectively on global problems; the fact that almost every aspect
of human endeavour and
planetary resource is addressed by international laws or bodies — all this reflects the transformative impact
of the UN on our world and our
lives.
NOW WE CLEARLY UNDERSTAND THE EXTENT
OF DEMENTIA IN AMERICA Dale Benjamin Drakeford 8-31-12 When Clint Eastwood, a self - proclaimed «conservative» (who has lived more like a Joseph Smith liberal spurning nine children with four different women, sporting a clinch fisted personae in his private exenterates over public exhibitions) talks vulgar to an empty chair, Marco Rubio (a small government advocate who loss his roots somewhere between caffeine - free tea and a caffeine rich Cuban cigar) slips Freudian to advocate «large government» in a failed attempt to wax brilliant but came off bane (pun intended) to the capitalization of the nation, Paul Ryan can lie and demonize his role against the truth until his nose is a foot long and not one member of his audience will notice, and Mitt Romney can anecdote on his personal family, business and church goings on as oppose to his solutions for unemployment, banking corruption, housing displacement, militarism, planetary illness and international human rights unrest, we can clearly understand the extent of dementia in Americ
OF DEMENTIA IN AMERICA Dale Benjamin Drakeford 8-31-12 When Clint Eastwood, a self - proclaimed «conservative» (who has
lived more like a Joseph Smith liberal spurning nine children with four different women, sporting a clinch fisted personae in his private exenterates over public exhibitions) talks vulgar to an empty chair, Marco Rubio (a small government advocate who loss his roots somewhere between caffeine - free tea and a caffeine rich Cuban cigar) slips Freudian to advocate «large government» in a failed attempt to wax brilliant but came off bane (pun intended) to the capitalization
of the nation, Paul Ryan can lie and demonize his role against the truth until his nose is a foot long and not one member of his audience will notice, and Mitt Romney can anecdote on his personal family, business and church goings on as oppose to his solutions for unemployment, banking corruption, housing displacement, militarism, planetary illness and international human rights unrest, we can clearly understand the extent of dementia in Americ
of the nation, Paul Ryan can lie and demonize his role against the truth until his nose is a foot long and not one member
of his audience will notice, and Mitt Romney can anecdote on his personal family, business and church goings on as oppose to his solutions for unemployment, banking corruption, housing displacement, militarism, planetary illness and international human rights unrest, we can clearly understand the extent of dementia in Americ
of his audience will notice, and Mitt Romney can anecdote on his personal family, business and church goings on as oppose to his solutions for unemployment, banking corruption, housing displacement, militarism,
planetary illness and international human rights unrest, we can clearly understand the extent
of dementia in Americ
of dementia in America.
«This is a journey where the end point is investigating
planetary atmospheres to look for signs
of life, and this result shows it's justifiable to build a space telescope to do exactly that.»
Based on a culmination
of ten years
of research work, the new method to estimate more accurate distances between
planetary nebulae and the Earth developed by HKU astronomers promises a new era in scientists» ability to study and understand the fascinating if brief period in the final stages
of the
lives of low - and mid-mass stars.
After shining for many millions
of years, stars end their
lives, mainly, in two ways: very high mass stars die very violently as supernovae, while low mass stars end as
planetary nebulae.
While globular clusters are billions
of years old, the
planetary nebula phase
of a star's
life only lasts for a few thousand years, so it's exceedingly rare to find them in globulars.
In November a team led by Washington State University astrobiologist Dirk Schulze - Makuch devised the
Planetary Habitability Index, or PHI, a scoring system for distant worlds that measures their suitability for any kind
of life, not merely
life as we know it.
But David Kring
of the Lunar and
Planetary Institute has modeled Chicxulub's immediate aftermath and shown forest fires were likely more regional — some forests
lived, while others died.
«There's a lot
of ambiguity in post-2050 projections
of sea - level rise and we may have to
live with that for a while,» said Robert E. Kopp, the study's lead author and a professor in the Department
of Earth and
Planetary Sciences at Rutgers.