Carbonomics no.10: The Essence of the History of the Earth. The Beginning and End of the Earth's Life.

Welcome to the second edition of Carbonomics Issue 10.

The first section of this work, ‘Photosynthesis: The Essence of the History of the Earth’ has been completely rewritten to take into account the ideas presented in the channel 4 documentary, 'The Day the Earth was Born'. However, it has to be stressed that this has not affected the fundamentals of this work. On the contrary, as will be pointed out later these ‘fundamentals’ serve as a critique of the inadequacies of this documentary.

'The Day the Earth was Born’ reveals the latest scientific evidence about the birth of the Earth, the early events which shaped its development, and the emergence of life on Earth. The case it presents on these issues is strong and persuasive and quite spectacular given the brilliant computer graphics it uses to demonstrate the events it believes occurred. But, quite surprisingly, it says little about the planet after the emergence of life on Earth. In a way, the geophysiological analysis presented in the first edition of Carbonomics 10 is not merely a much more comprehensive analysis of the way in which the Earth works and the pivotal role of Photosynthesis in creating a habitable planet, it can also be seen as a critique of the 'The Day the Earth was Born'. Despite the new scientific evidence and the spectacular computer graphics, this documentary is grossly inadequate in explaining how, to use our own words, "a massive ball of molten rock hurtling through space was transformed over billions of years into a staggeringly beautiful planet with a highly complex, and dynamic, system of inter-related species and habitats." Comments about this documentary can be found in the third section of the addenda.

Welcome to Issue 10.

This work is a considerably enlarged version of an article published in tf12 in april 1998. It follows the basic mundi club recipe. It is based almost entirely on the work of james lovelock - although it also includes quotations from other authors when they reinforce, or differ from, his hypotheses. Lovelock is the originator of geophysiology, the science of the way the Earth works. But his various publications also contain an explanation of the Earth’s development from its formation until the present time and millions of years into the future. Other scientists have provided a history of the Earth but lovelock was the first to provide something akin to an explanation of this development. This is another considerable accomplishment. It deserves more attention than it has been given so far.

Introduction.

Lovelock’s Science of Geophysiology.

This work presents an interpretation of lovelock’s explanation of the Earth’s history. It has a different emphasis from the one lovelock might prefer. He may not look favourably upon such an interpretation not merely because he seems a bit of a stickler, nor because the essence of a theory is often clearer to an outsider than to the person who has struggled with it for thirty-forty years. It’s also because in his desperate attempt to win respect from those who languish in the world’s lower scientific divisions, lovelock created a mathematical model of his ideas which focusses on a particular aspect of the Earth’s life sustaining processes. Lovelock’s daisy world model, explains the Earth’s climatic stability almost entirely in terms of Photosynthesizers’ albedo/heat effects. The importance of Photosynthesis in stabilizing the climate is implicitly acknowledged but the emphasis is on Photosynthesizers’ albedo effect rather than their absorption of atmospheric Carbon. One of the assumptions of this work is that global warming is composed of four different components:

the greenhouse effect (the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere);

the Photosynthetic effect (the absorption of Carbon from the atmosphere);

the albedo effect (the degree to which surfaces reflect solar radiation); and,

the heat effect (the absorption and release of solar radiation).

By concentrating so much on the albedo/heat effects lovelock almost seems to have forgotten these other influences. In this work the emphasis is almost entirely with the greenhouse effect and the Photosynthetic effect. So, although this work is gaian whether lovelock would approve or not is another matter. What should matter is the validity of this interpretation and whether it is more succinct than his own emphasis.

The Importance of Understanding how the Earth Works.

The original article on which this work is based made no attempt to explain why a history of the Earth was important. It was assumed the political implications were too obvious to need highlighting i.e. if oomans were going to survive on Earth then they would to have to come to terms with Photosynthesizers’ dominant role in the Earth’s climate. Understanding the essence of the Earth’s evolution (or, to use a more preferable term - its geolution) is vital for understanding the climate’s underlying trends and thus the actions that oomans need to take to regulate the climate. If oomans put their mind to it they can continue bulldozing the Earth’s landmasses into monocultural, green pasturelands (never has such a level playing field hidden such terrors, injustices, and inequalities!) but if they believe this is going to be sustainable over the long term then they really are deluding themselves. The political implications of the Earth’s geolution are drawn out in the final sections of this work.

The original article fitted together various pieces of the Earth’s geolution to suggest how a massive ball of molten rock hurtling through space was transformed over billions of years into a staggeringly beautiful planet with a highly complex, and dynamic, system of inter-related species and habitats - that is, before the Animal slavery industry started creating monocultural conditions around the world. There is considerable wonderment about how life has brought about such dramatic, planetary changes. Kids growing up in today’s society have become so accustomed to oomans decimating the living world around them for the sake of inanimate objects (roads, hospitals, shopping centres, etc) that they must find the idea of life creating a vibrant living planet an extremely alien notion. On a personal level, questions which for decades had seemed untouchable such as ‘How did we get here?’; ‘what is the meaning of life?’ or ‘why is there something and not nothing?’ suddenly started to seem far less beyond reach than they had before. This work doesn’t claim to give irrefutable scientific answers to such philosophical questions but the factors it discusses would have to be amongst the issues requiring attention.

Oomans as Planetary Beings.

The great benefit of understanding how the Earth came to be what it is today is to foster a sense that oomans are planetary beings and that the Earth is oomans’ home - fortunately one of an exquisite and heavenly nature. There are scientists who can explain far bigger phenomena than the history of the Earth e.g. the entire history of the universe from the moment of its birth to the moment of its death, but although this is an incredible intellectual achievement, it will never stimulate a sense that the universe is oomans’ home. It also says nothing about what oomans need to do to survive on Earth. Star trek readers might scoff that this is a very narrow minded, geocentric perspective. Perhaps in the long distant future this dismissal of geocentrism may be prove to be true, but if oomans don’t start learning very rapidly how to live on the Earth and become planetary beings they are never going to survive to find out whether their destiny lays beyond the Earth, the solar system, and the milky way.

The Proof as to the non-Existence of Ufos.

The doubt about oomans appreciation of themselves as planetary beings i.e. a species which can create a sustainable planet and survive in perpetuity on Earth, could be regarded as proof of the non-existence of ufos. There is a need here to speculate about what could be called the general rules of planetary development - assuming for a moment that life is emerging on many planets scattered around the universe. (This new scientific discipline could be known as astro-sociology). It can be suggested that where life forms are emerging on a planet, one species will eventually predominate over all others - just as the dinosaurs did tens of millions of years ago. If the dominant species acquires technological know-how it will then proceed to exploit other life-forms on the planet, ransack the planet’s resources, and eventually destabilize the climate. In other words, if a dominant species turns into a technologically advanced, master race (or, more accurately a master species) it is likely to end up destroying its planetary home. It is likely to do this before it is able to secure its survival by colonizing another planet and embarking upon space travel. This leads to the conclusion that there are no ufos anywhere in the universe. If, by some miracle or fluke of circumstances, a technologically advanced, master species survives long enough to establish itself on another planet, the long term survival of that species would probably depend upon its being able to leap from the planet it is killing to a pristine planet before the dying planet suffers a geophysiological breakdown. It would be easy to trace the origin of such a species from the trail of dead planets it leaves behind. Only technologically advanced species which abandon the exploitation of other species and creates a sustainable planet with a rich Biodiversity, will have a permanent platform for the colonization of other planets thereby guaranteeing its long term survival. There is hope then that whilst the universe’s worst Animal exploiters drive themselves into extinction, those species which refuse to adopt a supremacist way of life may find they have the opportunity to colonize space. Oomans might reflect that space travellers reaching the Earth may possess fundamentally different values from their own - one which might tempt the aliens to redress the balance of power on the Earth.

Perhaps it might be as well to see how the rules of planetary development, or astro-sociology for short, affect the Earth. The americans have put people on the moon but oomans, as a species, do not as yet have the global political or technological capability for using global resources to sustain a permanent settlement on the moon or a neighbouring planet. The scale of the money and resources needed to establish a moonbase and eventually make it independent of the Earth, and thereby guarantee the survival of the ooman race, would require the co-operation of all societies on Earth. The moonbase might require so many resources that it might be a century or more before it could become entirely self sufficient. Before this point is reached, if oomans die out on Earth, they will also die on the moon and oomans’ dreams of survival would be over. The only way that oomans could survive the destruction of their own planet is by establishing an independent, self sufficient, base on another planet. Even with all their current technological capabilities, oomans are centuries away from doing this. On the basis of current evidence, it is likely they will destroy the Earth long before they have established a permanent presence on another planet.

The same pattern of species development is likely to occur throughout the universe. Technologically advanced, master species are unlikely to establish a self-sufficient, independent colony on a neighbouring planet to guarantee its survival before it destroys its home planet. The reason that even the most technologically and politically advanced species drive themselves into extinction is because they exploit other species and pillage the resources on their own planet. Master races enjoy their triumphalism/supremacism over other species and their excessive over-consumption to such an extent it overwhelms their capability for reason and their ability to create a sustainable planet. Even if master races are scientifically successful in defining sustainability, and outlining the nature of a sustainable planet, it would be impossible for them to bring about a sustainable planet in the face of their races overwhelming demands to exploit other species and ransack resources for instant consumerist gratification. It is unlikely that such species will develop such scientific knowledge because the political pressures to meet consumerist demands will be too great.

The universal rule of species’ development is that even if a master race acquires an understanding of how to live sustainably on its home planet and acquires the political/technological skills to establish permanent, self sufficient, colonies on other planets, its desire to exploit other species and its own planet may be too great to resist. This will push it into oblivion long before it has been able to guarantee its survival through the establishment of space colonies. The master race’s materialist excesses and triumphalist ideology will drive it into oblivion. Master races are incapable of living sustainably on their home planet let alone using their planetary home as a secure base for the creation of independent space colonies. In other words, the greater the doubts about oomans’ survival on Earth, the greater the doubts about the survivability of any master race on any planet around the universe, and thus the greater are the doubts as to the existence of ufos.

Oomans are exploiting other species, ravaging the Earth’s resources, and destabilizing the climate with such rapidity and on such a scale they are unlikely to learn how to become planetary beings, or succeed in unifying themselves for the colonization of space, before they destroy their life support system on Earth. Oomans are destroying the Earth so profoundly there is little chance of it serving as a sustainable platform from which to create permanent colonies on other planets in the solar system. Virtually all oomans around the world are so oblivious of the planet they are living on that their prospects for colonizing neighbouring planets are virtually non-existent. This contempt for the Earth was clearly demonstrated by the spectacular failure of biosphere II - a hugely expensive, and spectacular, project created to show ecologists’ wisdom about the Earth. It is a wonder that oomans around the world did not recoil in horror at suddenly discovering that ecologists knew nothing about creating a sustainable greenhouse - let alone a sustainable city, region, country or planet. There is no greater symbol of oomans’ alienation from the Earth than the biospherians being forced to abandon the project, not even half way through what was supposed to be a two year experiment, in a state of near starvation, toxic poisoning, and semi-asphixiation. After this failure, governments around the world should have gone into emergency session and stopped all ooman activities until they had worked out what sustainability was and implemented a global plan for sustainability to ensure their long term survival. The fact that the biosphere II disaster was dismissed as a failed scientific experiment of no significance and quickly forgotten, is proof of oomans’ obliviousness of the planet on which they live. The only thing that biped livestock are interested in is shagging the planet. The vast majority of oomans around the world, but especially livestock consumers in the over-industrialized world, are engaged in such a disgusting, vile carnage of other species, which is decimating the Earth’s life support system, that the ooman master race stands no chance of surviving. Oomans are about as far away from sustainability on Earth as it is possible to get. Many of them show no sign of being able to live in harmony with their next door neighbours let alone the Earth.

There is no desire here to try and persuade the multitudes of star trekkers around the world that their only chance of exploring the universe is by first protecting their own planet. The point being made here is purely that oomans are dooming themselves to oblivion. Oomans are engaged in such carnage they don’t even deserve to survive. Until oomans appreciate the role of Biodiversity in maintaining a sustainable planet they aren’t going anywhere except down the evolutionary plughole. What this means in plain, straightforward, political terms is that until oomans abolish the Animal slavery industry; expropriate the ruling, landowning pharming elites in each country around the world; Reforest the Earth; and create ooman-free Wilderness areas; then they aren’t going to survive.

Carbon and Photosynthesis.

Carbon is the element from which life, and ultimately the Earth’s life support system, spiralled into existence. Without Carbon, life on Earth is unlikely to have advanced beyond the stage of micro-organisms - and, without life, the Earth would never have developed a sustainable life support system. The primary mechanism by which a newly-formed, lifeless Planet was transformed into a living, thriving, dynamic, complex, inter-related, Planet was Photosynthesis. Although the emergence of life on Earth was the first contribution to the Earth’s life support system, it was only a particular form of life, Photosynthesizers, which created the Earth’s life support system. Without Photosynthesis, other forms of life are unlikely to have survived on Earth for very long.

The Earth’s life support system consists of a multitude of inorganic and organic, interacting, interlocking, phenomena. Most of these phenomena have sprung into existence either because of Photosynthesis or, at the very least, because of the conditions created by Photosynthesis. Photosynthesis has an influence on virtually every single one of the multitude of phenomena making up the Earth’s life support system. Although Carbon can be regarded as the element of life, other planets contain substantial quantities of Carbon without ever producing complex forms of life or sustaining life - as can be seen from our neighbouring planets. If Carbon is the element of life, Photosynthesis is the engine of life. It is the difference between a living, and a dead, planet. The key to the life of the Earth, and to life on Earth, is Photosynthesis. It is the essence of the Earth - and thus the key to ooman survival.

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