Posted 27th Oct 2015 to the Southland Times Newspaper Invercargill NZ
Our Planet is a good old home, It’s got 4.45 Billion Years on the Clock and is fit to go several Billion more.
It was the Planet of the Trilobites for 270 Million Years and the Planet of the Dinosaurs for 135 Million years after that
And now we have just started the Anthropocene Era (aka the Time of the Biped - Primates)
I often wonder what the place will look like with us as tenants after 100 Million Years
considering we have just about wrecked it after a few mere decades of Global Domination...
It’s a funny thing we don’t actually have a body of our greatest minds yet to steer us as a species but I guess the Trilobites didn’t either and they managed OK.
Unlike our Trilobite ancestors we are part Bonobo and part Chimpanzee in our genetics and we don’t know if we should be peaceful or violent, should we except change or stand our ground... We don’t even know, will we still even be one species or fork again, there could be a Anthropocene Explosion involving some form of intelligence!
Any rate I hope our first Crazy Centuries are “remembered” when we hand over the planet to it’s next Tenants and I hope they forgive our mistakes, with any luck there will be many millions of Anthropocene Years to fix them.
Our Planet is a good old home, It’s got 4.45 Billion Years on the Clock and is fit to go several Billion more.
It was the Planet of the Trilobites for 270 Million Years and the Planet of the Dinosaurs for 135 Million years after that
And now we have just started the Anthropocene Era (aka the Time of the Biped - Primates)
I often wonder what the place will look like with us as tenants after 100 Million Years
considering we have just about wrecked it after a few mere decades of Global Domination...
It’s a funny thing we don’t actually have a body of our greatest minds yet to steer us as a species but I guess the Trilobites didn’t either and they managed OK.
Unlike our Trilobite ancestors we are part Bonobo and part Chimpanzee in our genetics and we don’t know if we should be peaceful or violent, should we except change or stand our ground... We don’t even know, will we still even be one species or fork again, there could be a Anthropocene Explosion involving some form of intelligence!
Any rate I hope our first Crazy Centuries are “remembered” when we hand over the planet to it’s next Tenants and I hope they forgive our mistakes, with any luck there will be many millions of Anthropocene Years to fix them.
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