Why is compassion for yourself and others not only the key to enligthenment but the key to all civilization as well

 Compassion for yourself and others causes civilization to flourish rather than to fall away.

I would say the human race is presently moving away from both compassion and civilization right now caused by Global Climate change where people are mostly dying from the heat and flooding.

The problem with the heat is that by the time you no you are in trouble in the heat it is too late to save yourself. Unless you have hypothermia from the cold this isn't ever true of the cold. But, the heat will take away your capacity to make life saving decisions so if there isn't someone to save you there then you die.

So, as more and more people die from the heat or get permanently incapacitated or temporarily incompacitated from it like I once did then lives are changed.

For example, I had to give up a good job as a Tree planter in 1974 because I got heat prostration and move my family (wife and child and I back from Mt. Shasta because I couldn't work for a week or more from heat prostration where you cannot function and have a headache for many days after this if you survive. Luckily I was only 26 in 1974 so I recovered but many do not if they are above 30 or 40 years old around the world. So, I know personally how close I came to dying then because I had to move my family because of my physical state eventually back to the San Diego Area.

I have also had hypothermia in the snow and both are problematic. Actually hypothermia is easier to deal with because then you just build a fire if you can in the wildnerness and warm up again.

One time my ex-wife and I high centered our VW Van on Mt. Shasta in the Freezing rain and I couldn't unstick it so we ran to my friend's cabin about 5 miles away. however, we were both so cold from no roadcoats or jackets and just in T shirts that we were hallucinating from Hypothermia before we broke into my friends cabin who wasn't there at the time and built a fire so we didn't die that day. Also, he had a big 4 wheel drive truck and was able to pull our VW Camper Van off the high center so no damage done to our vehicle or his. However, we almost didn't make it to the cabin 5 miles away down hill. It was lightly snowing when we started running downhill without jackets in t-shirts so we were very lucky to make it to the cabin and still be able to know who we were still.

So, having compassion as people all over the world die from the heat and the cold and from flooding and from droughts (like in ORegon and Colorado and Southern California right now might be important so we all survive the next year or so. What will the next year bring?

Likely even warmer and colder temperatures than this summer. This is likely too.

How many people will still be alive on earth by 2050?

I think half the number we presently have might be gone especially the way things are going now.

What will kill most people?

I think bad water and starvation and heat and cold and flooding and droughts will kill most of these people and it just is going to happen and that's all she wrote.

So, compassion for the human race while about 1/2 of us die by 2050 or later might be important for ANY of us to survive at all in the future here on earth.

By God's Grace

After all a couple hundred thousand years ago there were only about 900 to 1000 of us humans left alive because of things that happened then. We almost went extinct then too.