( see enlargement
)Back to February 2021 Newsletter
( see enlargement )
Theme for this month February 2021:
Global Civilizational State: the application of the Scale of Global Rights to the most important global issues threatening humanity's survival worldwide.
Global Issue 7: sections 1,2,3,4,5, and 6 affected: There are several major global issues: conflicts and wars, no tolerance and compassion for one another, world overpopulation, human activities destroying and polluting, as population increases the respect and value of a human life is in decline, insufficient protection and prevention for global health, scarcity of resources and drinking water, poverty, Fauna and Flora species disappearing at a fast rate, global warming and global climate change, global pollution, deforestation, permanent lost of the Earth's genetic heritage, and the destruction of the global life-support systems and the eco-systems of the planet. Our goal for peace in the world can only be reached by resolving these important global problems. These problems have brought up a planetary state of emergency. Global Civilizational State found evidence that resolving all those global issues is the essential prerequisite for the effectiveness and exercise of all rights recognized for human beings. We need to build global communities for all life on the planet.
In a cause and effect relationship, one event causes another to happen. The cause is why it happened, and the effect is what happened or is a consequence of the cause. Let us apply a cause and effect relationship between God and the Universe. If God created the Universe, then who created God? If the Universe needs a cause, then why doesn’t God need a cause? And if God doesn’t need a cause, why should the Universe need a cause? Everything which has a beginning has a cause. The Universe has a beginning. Therefore the Universe has a cause. God, unlike the Universe, had no beginning, so doesn’t need a cause. God, as creator of time, is outside of time. Since therefore God has no beginning in time, God has always existed, so doesn’t need a cause. If there is no cause, there is no explanation why this particular Universe appeared at a particular time, nor why it was a Universe and not something else. If there is no time before the creation of the Universe then how can God create the Universe. Since time itself began with the beginning of the Universe, it is meaningless to talk about what happened ‘before’ the Universe began. Causes must precede their effects. So if nothing happened ‘before’ the Universe began, then it is meaningless to discuss the cause of the Universe’s beginning. So this cannot be used to prove creation by God. On the other hand, there is good evidence that the observable Universe had a beginning. This can be shown from the Laws of Thermodynamics, the most fundamental laws of the physical sciences.
1st Law: The total amount of mass-energy in the Universe is constant.
2nd Law: The amount of energy available for work is running out, or entropy is increasing to a maximum.The Big Bang theory is the prevailing cosmological model for the Universe from the earliest known periods through its subsequent large-scale evolution. The energy and matter initially present have become less dense as the Universe expanded. Detailed measurements of the expansion rate of the Universe place the Big Bang at around 13.8 billion years ago.
In Physics, the second law of thermodynamics is one of those puzzling laws of nature that simply emerges from the fundamental rules. It says that entropy, a measure of disorder or randomness in the Universe, must always increase in any closed system. A positive entropy change means an increase in disorder. The Universe tends toward increased entropy. Entropy shows that the directions associated with the second law, heat transfer from hot to cold, for example are related to the tendency in Nature for systems to become disordered and for less energy to be available for use as work. When entropy increases, a certain amount of energy becomes permanently unavailable to do work.
Our everyday experience with reality shows entropy being reversed. Energy coming from the Sun can decrease the entropy of local systems on Earth. But the overall entropy of the rest of the Universe increases by a greater amount that is positive and greater in magnitude. For example, the solar energy hits the leaf of a tree, and is used to create complex carbohydrates. Using lower order energy to create greater order in the carbohydrates of a leaf seemingly violates the laws of thermodynamics. Except, that it does not. To generate that ray of light, inside the sun, 600 million tons of hydrogen per second is converted to energy. This is a massive flow of order (the atoms) to disorder (energy). The leaf of a tree converts a tiny percentage of this disordered energy back to order. Combining the two together shows that, overall, there is still a massive flow of order to disorder. Thus the second law of thermodynamics is not violated. So, the entire Universe, without exception, is moving from a state of order to disorder. Once this has happened, no more work can be extracted from the Universe and there is no remaining useable energy.Why is it important for humanity to understand that the observable Universe had a beginning? Why is it important for humanity to understand that the Universe tends toward increased entropy, and that there is the tendency in Nature for systems to become disordered and for less energy to be available for use as work? Why is it important for humanity to understand that Life on our planet will gradually be extinct sooner or later? Perhaps we should all take very seriously the need to manage Life on Earth, our livelihood in our own community. Let us all manage the most serious threat to Life on Earth: global warming.
Global warming alone can kill us all. Global warming will also release the greenhouse gases from the permafrost thus producing colossal positive feedbacks. They are tipping points easily observable. Soon, to sustain Life in those extreme conditions would require more energy but there will be less to share, especially with more people. There’s no certainty of how much time we have to turn the world economy from an exploitative one, to one that functions within Nature, as a part of Nature before it becomes irretrievable.
Petroleum or crude oil is a fossil fuel derived from ancient fossilized organic materials and is a mixture of hydrocarbons that exists as a liquid in underground geologic formations and remains a liquid when brought to the surface. Crude oil reserves are vanishing at a rate of more than 4 billion tonnes a year so if we carry on as we are, our known oil deposits could run out in just over 50 years. The burning of fossil fuels causes pollution and releases greenhouse gases into the atmosphere thus creating the global warming of the planet and global climate change.
Knowing now what is going to be our future, and the future of the next generations, would humanity finally understand the urgent need of governing and managing Earth resources, and our needs for them?
To solve the climate crisis we must activate immediately, without delay, the following five jobs. Job number one is retiring old coal plants. Job number two is using fossil fuels only for essential services, starting now, today. Job number three make it a law to declare all of our various modes of transport be used only for essential services, from airplanes and cars to buses and cargo ships. Job number four, cut down on consumption of all types by 50%. Job number five, petroleum or crude oil is a nonrenewable source of energy and must be left in the ground and replaced by renewable sources of energy. Again and again, only essential services of a city will be allowed to use fossil fuels. Airports and shipyards all over the world should only be allowed to operate for essential services, and manage under government controls.
Let us explore how else we could all survive global Life extinction.
For a century evolutionists have challenged creationists with a large amount of scientific experiments and theories. Was Life on Earth created by God about ten thousand years ago as described in the Bible or was it a slow and natural evolution spreading over several billion years? Unfortunately, a natural evolution encounters significant problems in explaining many biochemical systems which cannot be built up by natural selection alone and so evolution cannot explain the step-by-step pathways that created cells. Cells are the basis of Life, the basic structural unit of living things, and all functions essential to life occur within the cell. Evolution could not have been happening by chance either. But Life was purposely arranged. So it seems! Only Global Community can provide a reasonable explanation about how Life was formed in the Universe.
The laws of nature can organize matter to build complex biochemical systems that are at the origin of lifeforms such as a complex human being. The most relevant laws are: biological reproduction, natural selection and mutation. The evolutionary process has been activated from the beginning. And each particle or space-time point, had a 'Guiding Soul'. All biological structures can be explained in terms of those natural laws and the existence of Guiding Souls. Some mutations have a positive effect on the organism in which they occur and increase the fitness of the organism. They are called beneficial mutations. They lead to new versions of proteins that help organisms adapt to changes in their environment. Beneficial mutations are essential for evolution to occur. Without-doubt there have been other types of beneficial mutations during Life evolution, and humanity would need more of them today for survival. Let us explore what the Soul of Humanity can do for us all.
Souls exist in all spaces and are goal oriented. The conditions for the formation of Life on Earth appeared gradually over the past billion years. Souls show the way in whatever particles they exist in. A Soul has one very important goal, and it is to show the way toward the creation of Life in the Universe. Souls have been guiding the expansion of the Universe and evolution of Life in small ways so as to make it possible for Life to evolve and be conscious of itself. All lifeforms, even plants, can be conscious. This goal is a global common to all Souls.
From Life's viewpoint, the ultimate goal of a Soul is truly to create a symbiotical relationship between Life in all its forms. Souls exist in all particles and can have an effect on the physical Universe. That is why I referred to them as 'Guiding Souls'. Since time has no meaning to a Soul, the billions of years that it takes to create galaxies, planets, and ultimately Life, can always be achieved. Like an artist painting the Universe making sure that, at the end, Life is expressed on the canvas. Life is the ultimate goal to achieve. This is what Souls do best, they unify to better serve Life. They merge together to better serve Life. Souls can evolve as well. They have formed a new Being, the Soul of all Life, or SoulLife, also called the Soul of Humanity for us on planet Earth, to better serve Life. A life-form with more physical senses has more ways to communicate with the Soul and thus with Soul of Humanity. The Soul of Humanity is a wonderful loving Being made up of the Souls of all Life on Earth and the Soul of Earth itself, and by extension the Soul of all Life is also the Soul of all Life over the entire Universe.
Global commons amongst Souls are peace, truth, justice, doing good, social harmony, cooperation, love, absolute communications, and fluid motion. Although the same Soul would be within a life-form throughout its life-span, it is only a viewpoint, Life's viewpoint, the physical Universe's viewpoint. The overall picture, the Soul's viewpoint, is still a fluid type of motion and Souls move around as waves and the wind, swirls, interacting gusty winds, in and out of each other, constantly merging to achieve the ultimate goal of the Soul. We all need to be in touch with the Soul of Humanity and ask for guidance. No better time for help!
Our planet is populated with millions of different lifeforms interacting with each other to survive, thus forming an intricate web of Life in different ecosystems on the planet. The interaction and interdependence between lifeforms are the driving force that creates and maintains an ecological, environmental equilibrium that has sustained Life on Earth for millions of years enabling it to evolve, flourish and diversify. Worldwide, Peoples live in a cocoon of denial. They have been thought from childhood that they are isolated or protected from harsh, dangerous, or disturbing realities, so why should anyone be worried about Life extinction on our planet. Humanity’s rapidly growing consumption of materials, water, energy resources, fertile land is causing severe damage to all Life on Earth. The amount of natural resources extracted for the production of goods and services is steadily increasing and wasted.
A global critical tipping point that is evident, obvious, clear, is the way society view Nature around us, a situation that is bad in two different ways. To maintain a general satisfaction within the capitalist system that is driven and motivated by competition, endless growth is needed, but in a finite system it must end when resources are exhausted. However, we also have a double crisis emanating from this view, pollution that impairs Life and the greenhouse gases that are heating the biosphere and acidifying the oceans, all would end Life if the system is maintained to its exhaustion.
There are other tipping points with potentially far-reaching consequences: the die-off of the Amazon rain forest, the rapid melting of Greenland and West Antartic ice sheets, and the melting of the Artic ice cap. All are already under way, reducing the survival prospects of flora and fauna in their respective habitats. As these processes gain momentum, entire ecosystems are being obliterated and many species killed off, with drastic consequences for the humans who rely on them.