As I consider and ponder the question: “What can we learn from the diversity in nature?” here is my view.
Nature engages in trial-and-error experimentation. To come out a winner in this project is to adapt. If we observe carefully we note an enormous variety of species created and/or evolved. Those that adapt survive and flourish, those that don’t head toward extinction. Hundreds and thousands of species have gone extinct. Could the human species be heading toward extinction?
You bet it could! Why? Due to the man-made global disaster and devastation euphemistically known as The Climate Crisis.
Whether it will be through the pressure of more climate-refugees; or because of the cost of fires and floods and wind damage; or because we can’t bear the extreme heat conditions that are coming – correction: that are already here for Greenland, where its glaciers are rapidly melting – whether it is any one of these or a combination of several, we will pay for attacking Mother Nature. The expense alone for air conditioning as we attempt to keep cool could impoverish us. The warming of our oceans is causing more intense, and more frequent, severe hurricanes.
All of this is avoidable if we pull carbon out of our atmosphere, if we quickly plant more trees, if we stop cutting down the Amazon Forest. It would help greatly too if we switch to electric cars, if we become vegetarians, if we remodel building to conserve energy, if we have a massive drive to convert over to clean, green renewable sources of energy such as wind, solar, tidal, and geothermal, if we develop and make widely available the batteries to store the power. These batteries have already been invented; we need the mass-production of them.
Let’s get busy !!! Let’s prevent our near-extinction.
Let’s urgently develop a problem-solving attitude.
- Face up to the actual situation.
- Define more-and-more-exactly the problem.
- Cooperate on getting to the goal, on working together.
Quite a bit is already known about project management; and about starting with the goal and in our imagination figuring out the small steps, working backward from the goal, spelling out the steps that lead up to it; then going forward together to implement these steps. We work out the the most-efficient Critical Path. We at least re-join, as a very first step, The Paris Climate Accords; and we support the efforts and offer leadership as a role-model.
So – what are we waiting for? Let’s make the human species a winner!
Let’s adapt by evolving further in the direction indicated in the writings linked to in the Signature below. Let’s become Ethical.