To Respond This Time
Will Cost Us Everything
by Mark R. Elsis
In 1601, an English sea captain named James
Lancaster conducted an important experiment. Commanding
four ships on a voyage from England to India, he served
lemon juice every day to the crew on one of the ships.
Most remained healthy. But on the other three ships, 110
of the 278 sailors died of scurvy by the journey's midpoint.
The experiment was of immense import to seventeenth-century
seafarers, since scurvy claimed more lives than any other
single cause, including warfare and accidents.
Surprisingly, however, this vital information had little
impact on the British Navy. The Navy did not conduct its
own experiment until 1747, nearly 150 years later, and
did not stock citrus fruit on its ships until 1795. And
British merchant marine followed suit only in 1865, more
than two-and-a-half centuries after the first experiment
with lemon juice was carried out. Despite the magnitude
of the scurvy problem, and despite the availability of
a simple solution, people were extremely slow to respond.
Humanity has been extremely slow to respond to stop the
sixth mass extinction period which we are blatantly causing
by our shortsighted wholesale destruction of the richest
place for life on Earth, the Rainforests. We must completely
stop this devastation to the web of life before we break
the critical built-in barrier set by mother nature of
10% Virgin Rainforests land area with its 50% Rainforests
species remaining. Gaia has somehow magically built-in
this barrier so that the most species of life can survive
in the event of just such a catastrophe.
If humanity stays on its present path of annihilation
to the web of life we will go under what we call the 10%
/ 50% Safeguard Threshold Providence in late 2012. This
is our species Omega point. If Homo sapiens break this
web of life barrier, all bets will be off for our chance
of future survival. We will most likely go extinct within
7 generations because a series of plagues will arise from
the checks and balances found throughout nature being
decimated, by us.
We must wake up now before we most regrettably pass our
own Omega point. Humanity must immediately stop the slaughter
to all life on Earth, or we will pay the ultimate price
of life, extinction.
the advent of the Nuclear Age,
everything has changed but the way people think,
thus, we drift towards unparalleled catastrophe."