Five thoughts, ideas, insights, or quotes to power up your mind to think differently and creatively about life and who we are. Put all previous thinking away and open up a brand new world of the Supermind. YOUR SuperMind.
This week – Climate change.
Climate change is a hot topic on everyone’s lips these days. Opinions are highly divided. Some see the weather changes in recent decades as proof positive that it’s happening. Others see it as mere alterations in patterns over too small a period to truly declare a climate change. But, whatever the view, it’s a hugely important subject and that’s the type SuperMind Saturday likes. So, let the thoughts begin….
1. Climate Agreement.
Humankind is a race of people. A group, a clan, a tribe. We exist by agreeing to follow the consensus of the majority. This is how we survive, protect our numbers, and evolve. But, climate change has, well, changed all that. It’s not that the members of our group (you and me, everyday folks) can’t agree. It’s the authority figures – in this case the scientists, climatologists, and meteorologists that can’t agree on what defines climate change.
We need a metric, a data point, everyone can largely agree on that sways the argument one way or the other.
2. Everyone or no-one.
The next driving issue is that if climate change is a real and expanding threat to life on Earth, we need everyone to help tackle it. Any huge problem for a group will never be solved if only a few are active in dealing with it. This precisely mirrors the issue today. Huge countries like USA and India, the main creators of the pollution said to fuel the acceleration of climate change, won’t support changes to their practices. What hope is there of reversing the climate trend if only small, very low polluters are working towards it?
How do we encourage the main powers said to influence climate change to alter the way they operate, manufacture, and live?
3. Population v Nature.
Life has become an almost fine line between human population growth and nature. Whether or not there is climate change, the recent increases in wild weather has impacted more people than ever. This is because of increased building of homes and communities, businesses, and infrastructures in areas prone to natural disaster effects. From floods to fires, earthquakes to tornadoes, an increasing percentage of people are caught in the full force of mother nature’s extremes.
Is it time to ban construction in such areas to save lives and their cost or even limit population growth to a managed level?
4. What else could it be?
Humanity seeks knowledge. It seeks understanding. And it seeks questions to do that. The prevailing thought about climate change is that our industrial activities over the last few hundred years has sparked this crisis. That and our creation and use of polluting cars, fossil fuels, air conditioning, and products like aerosols to name but a few. Our minds are set on this being the chief reason, if not the complete reason. But, could there be other reasons still adding to the problem we’ve not considered – increase in sun spot emissions, mass food production, even space dust or Universal gases flooding our atmosphere.
Have we asked enough questions to ensure we know what is behind climate change. And if not, which ones are missing?
5. Time to plan for pain?
For the last few decades we have been debating the issue. Much data and evidence has been shared, many gathering of top powers, huge coverage has been dedicated by the media. But….and it’s a big but……all of this has been about slowing down and trying to reverse climate change. To prevent it getting worse still. However, we have made few inroads into the problem. It appears to be escalating. And so this begs the biggest question of all.
Should we now be planning for a worse case scenario outcome and what it would be like rather than preventing the unpreventable?
PLEASE share your views or responses to these questions, we the people can solve when we come together!!
Ok, that’s another SuperMind Saturday done. Thank you for being here for the SuperMind time. Keep thinking about these. We need more minds thinking about this issue and the others issue on SuperMind Saturdays. Why? Because it’s needed. Because the world requires new thoughts and ideas. Ones from people like you!!
See you next time for more super thinking.
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