Human Stupidity

Humans are strange. We collectively seem almost incapable of preparing for the future. We either just react out of fear (such as the War on Terror or War on Drugs, but these are impotent acts that serve no purpose) or we don't even notice (sometimes actively avoiding aknowledgment of) the real threats.

I hear people arguing about Global Warming. Its a stupid debate based on ignorance and ideology. We do know that the global weather is changing. The reasons are less clear, but that is all the more reason we should be careful. This is known as the precautionary principle. We should stop adding massive pollution to the environment not because we know what it does but because we don't know what it does.

Anyways, we do know that pollution is bad for us. If pollution doesn't lead to climate changes that kills us, then the pollution itself might kill us. The increase of many diseases such as cancer is probably directly related to pollution. We look for cures for cancer, but why don't we look for preventing it at the source? Is there a reason we want to poison ourselves? Are we collectively trying to commit suicide?

We could've entirely converted to alternative energies decades ago. Why are we still arguing about alternative energy? Why don't we instead invest our best minds in finding a solution? Pretty much everyone agrees that we'll run out of oil fairly soon. Why do humans have to wait until the last moment, until its almost too late before acting?

Also, why are we so careless? More animals have died because of the Industrial Revolution than from the Ice Age. Actually, we don't even know how many species we've killed. Most species have probably gone extinct before they were discovered.

On top of all of this, when Yellowstone blows it will be the biggest volcano in the world. It would annihalate the whole population of North America and blacken the skies for months across the world. The magma pocket is overdue for explosion and its been more active recently.

Any single factor is of limited importance. Climate change isn't necessarily significant in itself. However, mutliple factors combined simultaneously could be game-enders for our species. So, we have massive pollution, massive extinction and ecosystem collapse, massive climate change, and massive volcano. Instead of increasing the number of possible threats, wouldn't it be smarter to decrease them? A Yellowstone explosion would certainly change the global environment and cause widescale species extinction, but we are already doing this to ourselves. Are we so excited about total annihalation that we can't wait for nature to do it for us?

If we humans don't manage to kill ourselves and all of life on Earth, it will be direct evidence of God's intervention.

Dream: Soccer Chess

My friend Mike and I had met. We were planning on playing a game that was a combinatoin of Soccer and Chess except in the dream it wasn't a combination. It simply was both. He was studying strategies, specifically attacks through the center of the board/field. I was busy with something else, and so I wasn't studying strategy. When the time of game came, I was leaving for it, but I don't recall if my friend was going. He seemed so immersed in studying strategy.