Climate Crisis, Farming Empty Land, Population Reduction, Habitat Destruction, Wildlife Extinction, Bioengineering, Synthetic Life, Criminalization of Poverty, Carbon Phase-out, Techno-Fix and more...
Every electronic device we own and use requires energy to function. Energy consumption is expected to increase to implement the fourth industrial revolution. Huge data center facilities are being built to meet the exponential growth of digital data that requires storage.
Many countries in the Global South are growing and economic development requires increasing energy consumption to build infrastructure, housing, factories, power plants, etc…, followed by increasing in consumption and mobility. The improvement of living conditions increases the consumption of products and services (some of them superfluous) and generates a lot of waste that requires energy to be treated, recycled, incinerated or sent to dumps and there is also the hazardous waste that needs to be dealt with.
The so-called climate crisis is used by the rentier class (oligarchs and plutocrats) as another way for the financial capitalism to control and profit through the so-called green investments.
Society is divided between those who strongly believe in global warming and those who deny it. Common sense should be enough to assess that economic activity since the industrial revolution has become extremely extractive.
The need for raw materials such as wood, minerals, stone, water and energy has grown exponentially in the so-called developed countries. We cut down forests, alter the course of rivers, build dams, petrochemical complexes, mega-industries, excavate mines in search of ore in all corners of the world, launch thousands of artificial satellites, trivialize air travel, pollute water, air and land.
We produced a huge amount of garbage without any plan on how to deal with it. We introduced alien species everywhere, destroyed habitats and ecosystems, industrialized agricultural activity and normalize extensive plantations using chemical fertilization and phytopharmaceuticals.
Many agricultural regions have little population because less and less labour is needed in the fields, and what we see when we travel is an artificial landscape that some ignorantly call nature, when in fact the biological diversity is extremely low and sometimes the air and the water can be more contaminated than in big cities.
All these factors have a negative cumulative impact on the environment as a whole of which the climate is a part and it only takes a little common sense to realize it, no need whatsoever to get into useless discussions, however it is good to search for Cui Bono because we will get closer to the truth.
The agricultural territory, especially that dedicated to intensive agriculture, is a desert kept green at the expense of chemical fertilization and the overexploitation of water tables. The use of phytopharmaceuticals and nanotechnology is ubiquitous increasingly saturating the soil with contaminating agents, in addition, the application of foliar fertilizers is now the new normal.
In some countries we can travel many miles without seeing a soul, which leads many people to think that the planet is not overpopulated after all.
Countries with low population density, or with a high concentration of people in large cities due to lack of job opportunities and subsistence agriculture is increasingly unsustainable, few have sufficient land and financial resources to purchase modern equipment to make their farms profitable.
First of all, it seems that we are no longer able to equate that planet earth should be the home for other animals besides human beings, and most of us agree that we are going through a period of mass extinction due to multiple reasons and the loss of habitat is one of them.
We are dazzled by landscapes that in many cases are far from natural including forest areas, and to enjoy the pleasure of a comfortable trip, the car in which we travel runs in a paved road built with stone, gravel, cement and tar that have to be extracted from somewhere.
The road is a scar in the landscape, an artificial barrier and a place of death for many creatures that deserved better luck, to top it off, in many cases we travel through places that we perceive as empty land, whether they are agricultural fields or forest spaces. in fact it is true for the worst reasons.
Cities with tens of millions of people need huge amounts of resources that have to come from somewhere. When some of us refer to miles and miles of empty farmland it means that we are talking about what our sight reaches out through the car window.
Most of us never go to the places where the companies extract the minerals, the rare earths, the oil, the timber; we never visit the refineries, the petrochemical complexes, the power plants, the landfills, out of sight, out of mind. The concentration of people in large cities and the concentration of industrial poles does not mean that the planet is an empty space waiting to be colonized.
I am against any form of eugenics. To me, any depopulation program is just as criminal as having a planet populated almost exclusively by humans.
The threat to the survival of the human species lies in the current model of capitalist, colonialist and imperialist class based society is the core of the problem, we could tackle the other problems if we could get the capitalist system out of the way.
The level and the type of consumption per capita is what counts to assure the sustainability of a society, the economy cannot grow indefinitely on a finite planet, the population cannot grow indefinitely on a finite planet. Technological innovations creates the illusion of problem solved, but most of the times we are treating the symptoms, hoping for the best which means waiting for the discovery of a definitive solution.
If nothing works and capitalism runs amok, we still have the option to colonize Mars as part of the plan to expand the capitalist colonialism.
We can afford to blow up the planet earth because sooner or later we will set out to discover new territories and new sources of resources to further continue enriching the rentier class.
The most interesting thing is that many of us have embarked on this kind of fantasy, as if it makes any sense to take human civilization to the breaking point and cause the annihilation of most life forms of this beautiful planet earth because we will manage to develop the technology to travel through the Universe and settle wherever it suits us.
An arrogant mercantilist culture propagandizing a society without limits ends up being controlled by unscrupulous people where the most ridiculous and perverse ideas become admissible and even cherished.
This is the dominant culture that sells us dead ends while making us believe that we are opening paths to glorious liberation from the earthly shackles and limitations.
Imperialism is an intrinsic characteristic of societies organized into classes, hierarchy ensures that the most ambitious and unscrupulous end up controlling power and using the intelligence of others to consolidate it. Civilization is characterized by the development of complex societies run largely by wasteful, arrogant megalomaniacs attracted to superfluous luxury.
The need to conquer new territories becomes inevitable whenever the model of society is oriented towards the consumption of superfluous goods and services, when local resources are exhausted, it is necessary to look elsewhere, plunder, exploit, annihilate and enslave because the desire to accumulate wealth is too powerful to fight.
Imperialism is an intrinsic characteristic of hierarchical class societies ensuring that the most ambitious and unscrupulous individuals and entities end up shaping and controlling the institutions by hiring others people intelligence to consolidate it. Civilization is characterized by the development of complex societies largely run by lavish and arrogant megalomaniacs attracted by luxury lifestyles willing to do anything to defend and extend their power.
If we really want peace, social justice, environmental sustainability, we first have to get rid of the dominant culture, a culture that keeps us prisoners of a worldview based on limitless economic growth and the dogma that science and technology are the keys to solve all our problems.
Technoscientism is just another absurd religion created by members of the elite to justify the current societal order that should be questioned since it represents the perpetuation of the neocolonialist imperialist civilizational paradigm.
Planet earth will be transformed into an inhospitable place by an ideology that wants to impose the green capitalism through the implementation of the fourth industrial revolution and transhumanism as the recipe to make human civilization sustainable.
Green capitalism is the push forward of financialized capitalism for absolute control over the planet's natural assets, processes and services.
The installed powers convince us that the energy transition is necessary to ensure the continuity of human civilization and save the Earth from climate catastrophe, omitting that the current dysfunctional civilizational model is exactly what will make the planet uninhabitable just in order to perpetuate the capitalist classist systems that actually created the problem.
A society in which the majority of citizens will be part of the useless disposable class that can be sent to “re-education” camps, or be faced with loose-loose choices by default.
Redundancy is the name of the game, some of us will be used and abused as useful servants for all services, including sex slavery, and made disappear from the scene with the snap of a finger.
The hierarchically structured class society is the core problem of the idea we have about civilization. We are born, grow up and live in societies that have normalized exploitation as essential to the continuation of the class system.
The dehumanization, objectification and commodification of human beings, animals and anything that can be used to make a profit and enrich someone is justifiable and encouraged and somehow we believe that this system is reformable and will get us out of the ditch we are in, if that It's not delusion and/or blind faith, I don't know what it is?!
Ideas have consequences, scientific knowledge and technological innovations do have consequences, technology is neither impartial nor neutral, some of us are more influenced than others but society as whole always changes when new technology becomes part of our daily lives.
New technologies with great invasive potential (biotechnology and nanotechnology) are increasingly present in our personal, family and professional daily lives, with little to none scrutiny, we know little or nothing about the long-term consequences, as happened in the past, when new synthetic molecules were introduced to the market, they were always advertised as innocuous and revolutionary, decades later we discover that profit comes always first, people, animals and the environment are used as guinea pigs.
Propaganda is increasingly sophisticated and we are not better informed than the previous generations, the quality of the critical mass has not improved and the perception management and conditioning behavior techniques have become more pervasive and effective. We need to be more vigilant and become better critical thinkers, we are the loosing side of the war waged against us by the people on the top of the social pyramid (oligarchs, plutocrats, the rentier class and the deep state) and soon we might not even be able to change the fate of humanity.
The dominant culture has gone in the opposite direction at least for the last fifty years, shallowness and infantilization (a culture of make believe) has gone mainstream, ignorance and misperceptions in a society driven by interests, where almost nothing happens by chance always serves the interests of the few.
The metaverse is the next evolution of the internet. In the brave new world that is being designed, we are going to live in a permanent limbo, we still have to live in the physical world because we can't cut the umbilical cord with Gaia, but we will increasingly depend on the virtual world to work, shop and interact with other people from the comfort of our couch.
Virtual communities and business meetings will become routine where people “live” and collaborate through avatars. Digital currency will eventually impose itself as the metaverse's means of payment. The metaverse will also become the preferred medium for recreational purposes with users resorting to headsets and virtual reality systems.
The metaverse does not compete with the internet, it is based on it. In the metaverse, the users cross a virtual world that mimics aspects of the physical world using technologies such as virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), AI, social media, and digital currency.
With the emergence of transhumanism we will certainly enjoy the benefits of being able to merge the living organism, or parts of it to upgrade our species to the next level. Would it be advisable to apply the precautionary principle, or “progress”, in whatever form must never be stopped? Cui Bono? Who decides the fate of the many? Can we have a little agency?
Question: what kind of society do we want? Homo sapiens has more than two hundred thousand years of existence that could end with the development of a transhumanist hybrid (with several subspecies) species, this process should be considered evolution or an arrogant step of delusional scientism?
If humanity had the possibility to lucidly decide which way to, would transhumanism be the top priority?
Do we want life on planet earth to be irreversibly altered by biotechnology, merging computing technology and living systems?
The domestication of animals by the human species stimulated the development of new breeds through crossbreed and by selecting the characteristics considered useful to specialize the breeds according to the intended use.
Animals were used and abused, mistreated and exploited (pack animals) in peace and war, in sports and for entertainment, of course just as among humans there have always been privileged animals (the exception serves to confirm the rule). And now we are about to go beyond genetic manipulation applied to plants and animals and allow the development of transhumanism as a tool to implement a “sustainable” technofeudal civilization.
