Here come the Super Heroes, Saviours of our planet?

In 2029 there is a 1 in 250,000 chance a 27 million tonne asteroid named Apophis will hit Earth (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8435829.stm).  "People's lives are at stake" says Mr Perminov, the head of Russia's space agency.  "We should pay several hundred million dollars and build a system that would allow us to prevent a collision, rather than sit and wait for it to happen and kill hundreds of thousands of people"  he said.

Will Apophis actually hit Earth?  We don't know.

What we know with almost certainty is that left unchecked life on Earth will be decimated by climate change.  Destruction far worse than Apophis can deliver.  From an environmental perspective, in the words of Mr. Perminov, is at acceptable to us to "sit and wait for it to happen and kill hundreds of thousands of people?"

There are those who argue that climate change has occurred for over millions of years without human cause and cannot be attributed to man alone.  I agree with them.  Yet, I believe, humans have evolved to a point we have the capability of influencing the future of our planet even for causes beyond our creation (such as Apophis).  See http://www.weonepeople.com/oneworld/2009/09/evolution-chapter-two.html.

Unfortunately, while we have developed scientifically and technologically to a point we can change the future of our planet, we have not made the same advances socially and politically to benefit from this.  Unless all people of earth, people of all races, colour, religions, cultures and nationalities can galvanize themselves to form a united earth we are doomed.  Our planet cannot be saved by Super Heroes, but only by average diverse people working together.  Getting all diverse people of earth working together to save our planet seems more difficult than diverting Apophis from collision with Earth.

 

 

Comments

[Saifuddin Lakda]

People's lives are at stake any way, when it comes to recent earthquake in Haiti or anywhere in the world. Climate change has hit earth due to scientific and technological development. How can we expect all diverse people of earth to work together to save our planet? Answer probably lies in faith in religion -i.e., patience, belief, justness or equity and defence for the cause of mankind.

[Monist]

It is true that people's lives are always at stake. People die from cataclysmic events such as the Haiti earthquake,from aircraft or rail disasters, even from crossing roads.

In terms of threats to life there are some that are natural not caused by man such as the Haiti earthquake. Then there are threats to life which includes a human factor: Aircraft, rail and road disasters and also very possibly Global Warming.

As I stated in my post "Evolution and Man: A unique relationship(http://www.weonepeople.com/oneworld/2009/09/evolution-chapter-two.html)." man now has the ability to change the future. But for that to happen effectively we need to organize ourselves to form a new World Government on top of all existing national governments.

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