It is generally thought that the Homo Sapiens we would recognise as resembling ourselves emerged around 50,000 years ago.
We surely cannot but believe that in the ensuing millennia we have been the most destructive denizens of our habitat yet produced the most wondrous things Nature never anticipated.
It’s a puzzle.
The world of mammals, barring ourselves, do not in general seek to destroy their habitat or, indeed, each other save, of course, for predator and prey. Even herbivores are known to attack each other at mating times.
Ditto for the world of fish. Lions and tigers seek not to render their prey extinct. Nor do sharks. They have more innate sense than humankind. The species humans have destroyed are without number.
We seem to destroy each other and much else besides willy-nilly for reasons that are often incomprehensible or unjustifiable.
Homo Sapiens seems to have a built-in flaw in its DNA.
As empires over the ages have risen and fallen they have come to demonstrate, at enormous cost, the futility of dominance. However strong you are, however ruthless, history tells us you will ultimately fall. The Romans, the Mongols, the Muslims and the British can all so, or will, confirm.
What then is the point of Homo Sapiens? Quo vadis. Whither goest thou?
Nowhere very pleasant one anticipates.
Whilst priding itself on its remarkable achievements humankind shuffles to the back burner the harm it has done, the species it has rendered extinct, the dead and damaged of countless wars and the absurdities it relentlessly pursues. Climate change has been happening for the 4.5 billion years of the planet’s existence and we are lectured daily that the Industrial Revolution of the past 250 years or so is the prime cause. C02 is plant food so reducing it to Net Zero is to encompass the destruction of all life on Earth. Have none of its exponents heard of or understood photosynthesis?
Do none of these flag-bearers appreciate the simple truth that sex is determined at the point of conception.
What of the much vaunted education of our young? If you feed them nonsense how are they to learn truth?
If tears you have then surely you must shed them now for the idiocies promulgated in humanity’s name.
I can offer no trendy solutions for the malaise which has gripped so much of humanity but I fear for our grandchildren who will assuredly pay the price of idiocy writ large.
As it remains the case and ever will that each of the present 8 billion Homo Sapiens is unique and identical twins apart, we are, each and every one of us, different to everybody else one is obliged to wonder where it will all end. Not with a bang one suspects but certainly with an extended whimper.
So, dear reader (I do not expect many) give some thought to the destination of humankind and perhaps, just perhaps, wake up and do something about it before it’s too late.
Here endeth the lesson.
Bon Courage.
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