1. Intelligence is a wonderful thing! 2. Feedback loops. 3. Index.

1. Intelligence is a wonderful thing! 2. Feedback loops. 3. Index.

A repeat article with some great ideas for 2016!

Gentle Citizens of the World: 

 Intelligence is a wonderful thing! It allows human beings to compete for food and territory with each other and with the other species on this planet. Also, and because of our intelligence, we survive better and more comfortably than do animals who are living in the wild and who are attempting to co-exist with us. 

 Unfortunately because of our intelligence, we have beaten and killed and dominated the other species into near extinction!  Many species including our beautiful Lions and Elephants and Tigers are losing the struggle for basic survival while we humans proliferate into the billions. The few solutions we have attempted to create in order to slow our human birth rate have been disallowed by our prolific religious world leaders and a majority of our world politicians who unfortunately are not, in most part, educated in basic science. All the other species are now subject to us! The trees and plants and microbes and germs and viruses are not excempt. Humans, however, are only temporary masters on this planet. Unlike the other life forms we humans are destructive to the natural environment and in consequence, to ourselves. I am ashamed to be a human who is forced to witness the ignorant and selfish destruction of life on Earth!  I am willing to share this planet and to help protect all life forms on this planet and I refuse to be pushed off this planet by polluters and pollution created by my own species!

 We Homo Sapiens have created tools and guns and ways to murder each other and as many other species as have the temerity to exist or stand in our way! We are foolishly and ignorantly proud of our so-called "industrial progress" and rampant industrialism is destroying not enhancing life on Earth. For one example gas burning cars continue to fly-off Robot dominated world assembly lines at the rate of Forty Two cars an hour. If industrial progress involved the protection and enhancing of life on Earth I would not feel the need to write these words!

 I now ask you, on behalf of the other species who cannot ask, to please create and enforce stronger anti-pollution laws and to actively work to save the natural environment of this planet!

 Please create and place economic value on products that help nature and do not destroy nature. Please reward those humans who create life enhancing products and stop economically rewarding those who create products that pollute and harm life on Earth! That would include guns and bombs, fossil fuels and gas burning cars and destructive chemicals and industrial products that do us all harm! Please slow or stop the Media advertising of such destructive products! 

 We humans are highly intelligent and we can use our collective imaginations for creating cities filled with flower gardens and trees and roof-top green houses. Cities filled with Bicycle paths and Electric vehicles and quick non-polluting mass transit systems. We certainly can use our half empty office buildings at night for creating living spaces for homeless people and for plants and even for small animals. We must ban the internal combustion engines from our city streets and destructive fossil fuels and polluting chemicals from our lives. We do have wonderful alternatives ready for use.

 We can improve our mass transit systems and we must lower Electric Bus fares for the poor and elderly who are the ones  left out and behind when you speak about growing the middle class.

We can create buildings that allow for quiet rooms where people could go and sit and relax without the mind disturbing incessant noise now permeating large shopping malls.
You can even place shopping-malls under ground and place large Geodesic Domes filled with plants and trees and small animals above the shopping malls.

You can do all of these wonderful things or you can do nothing and watch as nature, now polluted by humans, silently turns against life on Earth. 

Thanks for reading this letter!

Joseph Raglione

Executive director: The World Humanitarian Peace and Ecology Movement.
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Warning! Positive feedback loops are dangerously accelerating.
Stop poking the beast with a gas powered stick! 

 Scientists are aware of a number of positive feedback loops in the climate system. One example is melting ice. Because ice is light-colored and reflective, a large proportion of the sunlight that hits it is bounced back to space, which limits the amount of warming it causes. But as the world gets hotter, ice melts, revealing the darker-coloured land or water below. The result is that more of the sun's energy is absorbed, leading to more warming, which in turn leads to more ice melting – and so on. Today, melted Glaciers around the world are proof positive of this effect.

Various other feedbacks – related to emissions from soils and permafrost, from Volcanos and from industrial plants, from animal Methane and from forest fires as well as fossil fuel burning vehicles and ocean evaporation, are today measured by precise instrument satellites providing evidence of the ongoing crisis! Polluters around the world can no longer deny the evidence of a planet in crisis. If we do not stop the polluters and the pollution fast enough the world's children will suffer the consequences in the very near future!  

Feedback loops are complex in themselves and become more complex when considered as part of an integrated global climate system. Some are already dangerously accelerating while others have yet to kick in. Others still – both positive and negative – may yet be discovered.  Today's evidence of positive feedback loops coupled with historical evidence of rapid climate change, led one prominent climate scientist to compare releasing greenhouse gases into the air with "poking a beast with a sharp stick".

 I mention this because internal combustion cars continue to fly off the assembly lines at the rate of one every minute. The makers of these machines have chosen to ignore the signs of dangerous climate change. They are gambling against the science-based evidence and are  sacrificing the near future, not the distant future, the near future for quick present gain. On behalf of my generation I apologize to the children and grandchildren for the ecological disasters we are leaving for them! I sincerely hope we can avoid the worst of these disasters by changing our attitudes quickly enough towards life sustaining and not life destructive economic systems.