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15 June, 2019 – Episode 725.5 – Live from the Interplanetary Festival!
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Salty Water?, Aging Humans, Aging Bats, Sinking Seashells, Ancient Weed, Beewolf Business, Mantis Shrimp Armor, Mousey Peer Pressure, Interview w/ Dr. Jennifer Dunne, Venomous Medicine?, Robo-helper, Impossible Pterodactyls, LEGO Satellites?, And Much More…
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DISCLAIMER, DISCLAIMER, DISCLAIMER!!!
For all the certainty with which humanity sets its course
and seizes opportunities where it can…
We rarely contemplate our destination.
Allowing far too often…
For tendencies of mankind’s impulses to push us forward
Fulfilling the immediate needs
Of safety and security
Comfort and greed
The next steps taken by humanity
far too often are in reaction to where the last steps have left us standing
As if we have no destination in mind.
When seen from afar the course of humanity…
Often looks more like the drunken stagger of an infant
than the steady steps of a progressing society
And when we have no destination in mind…
We choose one by default.
And so…
This world of changing climate… is the destination we have chosen
Melting ice caps… is the destination we have chosen
RIsing sea waters… is the destination we have chosen
Flooded cities… is the destination we have chosen.
Death of the coral reefs,
the source of half the oxygen we breathe… is the destination
Agricultural drought and the ensuing famine… is the destination
Extreme weather events, of all sorts, affecting everywhere…
is the destination we have chosen by not choosing