How far can our kind be trusted on geoengineering?

 How far can our kind be trusted on geoengineering?
A multi-disciplinary account of global governance issues in light of Holistic Darwinism

Peer-reviewed

Gihan Sami Soliman

International-Curricula Educators Association

www.icea-global.org

07/05/2015

Would a human kind comprising an estimated number of 700 million of hungry people (WFP, 2014), while wasting one third of its food be entrusted on geoengineering the climate for ecological restoration? The humanity complaining today about the depletion of fossil fuel and global warming, while the little bit of sunlight falling on earth for one hour meets the world's energy demands for an entire year?! (Inslee et al, 2008). How much of today's hunger, misery and fears are all about politics and governance? Perhaps the greatest deal!

          Fears of a man-made doomsday has been lingering there for a few decades, expressed in several forms and cultures (Preston, 2012; Ginn, 2015); but officially by the publication of the “Limits to Growth” – 1972 (Hall, 2009). This seems to have been pushing humanity away from the “individualism” (Encyclopaedia Britannica) associated with the Laissez-faire economy of the traditional liberalism, justified at a time by what is known as the “Social Darwinism”, towards a sort of global solidarity enthusiasm – at least in principle.

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What is this about?

Each science domain expresses geoenigneering in a different way, and in different jargons. I integrated the different perspectives together, expressed in one simple language. The conclusion is that we have been already been manipulating the ecology for decades, by manipulating nature's fundamentals, till we've reached the current accumulative situation. As an educator, I plan my lesson in line with the objectives defined by the Bloom's Taxonomy. In the psychomotor dimension of the Blooms Taxonomy, and at its highest level, there is manipulation! Manipulation of Nature's fundamentals is what we teach our children to be good at, on a vocational level. So it is only the level of awareness and the consensus on the convenient action that makes today's proposed "geoengineering" called as such, not the action itself. This consensus is the real problem! Science says that decreasing atmospheric carbon dioxide today will not alone solve the problem, and governments might have to take actions in case of emergency, if the weather takes a sudden dangerous turn. But because there is a trust issue, and lack of science integration - to help us see the whole picture, we are reluctant to discuss it or study it further. This paper presents an integrated vision of the case and calls for more studies on geoengineering.

 

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Why did the bible say that the blood of martyrs is on those who dwell on earth and not only on the killers? Because the world fails to acknowledge that;

Victims of terrorism are not just those killed for their faith: Those ones lived as heroes and died as heroes; they are in eternal glory.

A true victim of terrorism is a person who has to give up or hide his/her faith in fear of persecution, death or torture.
A victim of terrorism is a woman cut and brainwashed to live her life as a trophy and raise more haters.
A victim of terrorism is any community intimidated to tolerate intolerance.
A victim of terrorism is a person failed by the community, humiliated or marginalised because of his/her beliefs.
A victims of terrorism is any person convinced to fund schools were more hatred is being taught.

And so cold-blooded killing is just a symptom of  global failure. The world - over ages, has been failing the victims of terrorism and humanity by failing to grasp, by silence and by tolerating intolerance. That's why the blood for martyrs are all on those who dwell on earth, and that's how terrorism would take over the world.

WE ARE NOT JUST ANOTHER SPECIES

لسنا كباقي الكائنات

This open letter has been e-mailed to the IUCN World Park Congress 2014.

13/7/2014

The letter/study is:

- about the necessity of collective self-awareness, unity and global governance.
An argument that the human kind is not just another species and that based on our extended phenotype we qualify as a separate kingdom of life; a sociophysiobiological kingdom with an illustration of a "Cybernetic Phylogeny";

- an expression of the human life-organisation in light of the "living-system theory" (Grier Miller cited in Umpleby, 2007), the "structure determinism" (Maturana and Valera, 1928) and the "Holistic Darwinism" (Corning, 1997).


The letter/study brings no new scientific discovery to the table, but by harnessing the existent knowledge through cybernetics, as I propose, a new multi-perspective model of the human life-organisation has simultaneously emerged.

I call this perspective: The Real-living-system.

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