http://comment.independent.co.uk/commentators/article338830.ece
This guy came up with the original idea in the seventies, that the Earth is more like a single, living organism, than a hunk of rock conveniently littered with a dusting of resources for us to loot. The argument is that there is a fine balance by which She regulates her atmosphere and makeup; any change in the chemistry of the air, oceans, caused by polution, deforesting, etc... are giving her a severe fever from which she will cure herself by a fitful, 100 000 year long coma during which humanity will cling in a primitive remnant to the newly balmy arctic.
Why do I get all dreamy and excited when I think of being part of a return to a scattered, pre-industrial village economy? Probably because in my cyber-era comfort I'm so naively detached from things like mortality, A) to realize the very plausible idea that I would be one of the casualties of such a cataclysmic event, or the petty war-torn chaos of it's aftermath, rather than one of the noble and neo-primeval survivors, and B) to feel shock and horror at the prospect of the literally billions of deaths that would accompany mine. Yay for GenY detachment!
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I know, it's mad... but I feel like nuclear war is not all that unlikely anymore. (Iran, U.S., Britain...) I also have made a goal to take at least one survival course before I die. I mean, at one time, it's all that really mattered... whether or not you could survive off the earth. We are completely removed from that here in the "West" and it would be so cool to just be able to say that if, in the case of a crazy nuclear fallout where I was left to fend for myself, then maybe I could. I say we take a survival course, then we can sit here in our cyber realities with the added comfort that we probably wouldn’t do all that bad in an apocalyptic world... good times
Reminds me of Les, he said he wanted to learn everything one person can hold in their head about horticulture, wilderness survival and orienteering, resource-level electrical engineering, and a martial art.
The total package for a post-apocalyptic Adam-complex !
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