Unity in diversity

Unity in diversity. I was reading recently about how the human race around 50,000 years ago almost went extinct in Africa and was driven down to around 2,000 total. Recent events make me worry that this could happen again, especially after studying the Easter Island Culture and the Mayan Culture and how they both disappeared overnight through suddenly running out of the resources to live on.

I think one of the ways to avoid this problem is what I call Unity in Diversity. The way this could work is that there could be unifying principles that keep all humans alive while each group each family maintains their personal cultural diversities as well. The Unifying factor is if we all don't pull together now in this century likely the human race will go extinct within the next 100 to 500 years or less. Some shocks are necessary for humans to embrace this worldwide, however. Just like almost dying out and going extinct changed how early humans chose to live and to survive. One of the ways they succeeded was to stay in larger groups together, in larger tribes. Also, developing beyond sign languages to verbal and symbolic communication also probably was helpful. Formal teaching of the children both survival skills and social skills also was likely helpful too.

Today, we have a tool that can reach almost everyone on earth directly or indirectly. I advocate a REAL world wide web of internet that has the same access in all countries. So that even when nations create propaganda in their TV shows and newspapers that at least the most educated of EVERY country can have access to all points of view worldwide if they want it. This would tend to create Unity in Diversity like I'm talking about and enable the human race not to go extinct.

However, it is obvious to most humans who are educated that the present amount of humans living on the surface of earth simply is not sustainable. It might be sustainable if people live under the earth and ONLY use the surface for farming and recreation. However, the way things are I believe only 25% of the present population is sustainable even during this century. This, I believe is the single scariest fact that humans have not chosen (yet) to face. So, for the time being most people are living in a fantasy about this because it is just not polite not to. For in the end who among us could ever choose who lives?