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Mankind has been labeled by the oligarchic press as raging savages raping the earth, killing fish, animals, and forests. What a depressing indictment! Is it an act of raping the earth to change the land from tree crops to food crops? Is it an act of pillaging to displace animals through development of farming with human civilizations, when mother nature inflicts worse ravaging through natural cycles of floods, drought, diseases, changing weather patterns, ice ages, and natural extinctions that have twice in geologic time erased 99% of all life on this planet? Is it richer for the planet earth to have vast tracts of land devoted to herds of bison rather than to the civilizations of men? The very great beasts of the past have all been destroyed by mother nature herself, not by mankind. While it is true that the currently severely enforced underdevelopment has forced mankind to more primitive means of taking a living from the land, the overall principle remains that the technological development that supports mankind's existence has also the potential to support the natural world in a richer state than mother nature does herself.
Mankind is the pinnacle of the evolutionary unfolding of life, in which cycle intelligence has had a decisive role. To shut down the human presence in order to maintain the earth as a primitive wilderness wasteland, sparsely touched by primitive life, is contrary to the dynamics of the development of life itself which is ever expansive and progressive. To shut down the human presence in favor of primitivism would imply a disrespect for the dynamics of life, and murder on a very large scale, which has already begun out of the mental darkness of blind and greedy men. Mankind may be the key link to spreading of intelligent life throughout the universe. The potential exist, the resources exist, the scientific mental capability exists, even willingness exists to face the infinite. What is lacking, temporarily, is an alertness against the workings of the brain dead despots who do their best to halt and reverse the development of life and tie mankind to the ground. Luckily, their days are numbered by the advancing course of progress, even as they cry about the need for murdering to sustain life on this planet. The advancing unfolding of intelligence and scientific discovery of fundamental principle will overrule such murderous insanities as population reduction through starvation and increasing underdevelopment.
Life demands to develop and increase until the point is reached when primitiveness is no longer a threat and the universe abounds with its vitality. I would rather have us cause the greening of the desserts and built bases on the moon to spread life through the solar system and the universe, than protect the rats in the cellars and the tetse fly in the swamps of Africa while human beings are killed by them. What mankind allows itself to be is not limited by nature or the raw bulk of the planet and its vast primitiveness, but by what mankind perceives itself to be as the tallest pinnacle of the creation of life and its boundless potential. Here is where the future gets bright and the night of doom ends - if mankind so wishes.
What is clearly evident, is the vast difference in profit for a society, between investing in scientific, technological, and economic infrastructure, compared to investing in war. Any investment in war entails a waste of resources, like the investment that was poured into the Vietnam War, all of which had been borrowed, that the nation is now paying interest on, for ever and ever, or for as long as the current financial system remains in force under which the national debt is unrepayable. Investment in productive infrastructure, in contrast, in such areas as scientific, technological, and economic development, produces benefits that the society profits from for its daily activities, which are real profits that repay the investments very quickly through the returns of increased productivity and the creation of real wealth. Thus civilization becomes enriched and humanity becomes elevated to a higher level of existence. The Vietnam War, in comparison, had the opposite effect.
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