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I attended The David Suzuki Foundation's 'Bluedot Tour' recently. If you have not heard about it, I hope you can attend. Very simply, its premise is to work to institute declarations legislated at the local municipal level thru to provincial and then to the federal government level to enshrine the right to clean air, water and food in our Charter of Rights and Freedoms just as 119 other countries on Earth have already done.
Interestingly, the extra-terrestrial species who have been knocking around Earth for millennia are waiting for this, and also for the end to our wars. They're really quite relaxed about it. They even let us develop, test and actually use atom bombs that upset the apple cart here on Earth but also in extra-dimensional universes; so strong is the universal agreement among truly 'civilized' species not to interfere with other worlds the more advanced species will let us destroy ourselves with wars and neonicotinoids rather than mess about with our timeline.
Sure, they may poke and probe us and there's a bit of inter-species DNA floating about, but when it comes to our custodial responsibility to protect our world from bad ideas, it's really up to us. Should we ever attain peace, the hell on Earth we humans have created will almost instantly abate because we will be shown new technologies that will essentially save Earth in the cosmic short-term, allowing us to achieve inter-stellar travel. We prove we will not kill each other with anti-gravity devices and we're good to go. Suddenly, several universes and a few inter-spacial bubbles will be ours to play in. After all, when our Sun goes nova, it's kaput for Earth. We better have earned the Great Leap Forward by then.
What does this all mean? Simple; We stop killing one another, we prove we can use technology to improve our planet instead of destroying it through wars and pollution, and the prize at the fair we get is a Kewpie doll called Utopia. So, what's more important; Peace or an environment that will sustain Human life? Bit of a cosmic horse and cart scenario me thinks. Cleaning things up would be a good way to hedge our bet though. -AN
