I was watching the latest episode of "Resident Alien" which came out on March 6th this week on the SYFY channel and it occurred to me to ask some questions.
Like: "What would I do if I wanted to maintain the ecology of earth but didn't necessarily share the value system of Human beings because my planet wasn't earth?"
Here are some of my thoughts:
"The goal of "The Alien War" as it affects earth is not to just kill people. That's not it at all.
The goal is to allow the ecology of earth not to be completely destroyed because we are presently moving towards something as serious as when the Dinosaurs (the big ones) went extinct, where dinosaurs too big to live in Caves or in the water to stay warm enough when the asteroid hit earth all died within a few years of that (Nuclear type of winter) 65 million years ago.
So, if you were technologically advanced and had no interest at all of killing people but also were faced with the fact that unless the human population of earth significantly reduced in the next 100 to 300 years that everything and everyone likely was going to die what would you do?"
In thinking about it more it reminds me of what Purple Delta 7 said recently which is that what is important is not individuals in the human species but rather than what is important is cultures and groups of people that some of them all survive.
So, I think this is the right way to think about what "The Alien War" actually is. It's sort of like Rangers in Yellowstone thinning out one species or another that has become too prolific so all species of plants and animals and humans can continue to exist here on earth.
I think this actually says it best.
And at least in the short run allowing Global Climate changes to get worse and worse allows some humans to survive and many to be thinned out by the actions of everyone the last 25,000 years burning fossil fuels.
However, at some point other decisions have to be made by some groups of people in how they plan to actually survive all this at all.
So, then the question is: "How do you preserve democracy on earth while still preserving the ecology of the planet so some people can still survive here?"
Unless we ask the right questions we are not going to get useful answers in how to proceed from here.
Later:
And if we don't ask the right questions then NO humans at all will survive here on earth.
So, asking the right questions is the beginning to finding the right answers to human survival here on earth.
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