They say a true test of how well you've learned about something is how well you can explain it to others and in its essence this months long Pageant of Earth’s Evolution project has been that sort of a self-evaluation for me. Both to see how well I understand it and to see if I could convey the story in a way that might resonate with regular people.
Why is that important to me? Because I believe clearly appreciating Earth and her story is one of human society’s greatest failures - and greatest challenge for enabling any sort of future functional human society, since our avarice has pretty well condemned this globally connected modern society we depend on.
I keep struggling with; How could intelligent people allow such self-destructive disregard to the need of our life support system, the one that sustains our society? I mean seriously, never accepting that our long term economy depends on a healthy biosphere (no matter how much we’ve learned about it)? WTF!
Proudly proclaiming that endless growth was/is our economic priority and that Greed is Good along with convincing ourselves that Too Much Is Never Enough. From my perspective it’s always been nothing less than sociopathic self-interest and faith-induced-blindness. Along with being absolutely self-destructive. As those who dare to open their eyes and minds can see when surveying the growing carnage covering our planet. But I digress.
