Hello Everyone
I have several items that I would like to share with you.

I have been carrying a picket sign and agitating since the Civil Rights days and the frame of reference continues to grow larger. Now we are in discussion of the question, "Are the humans a failed species?"
Simply, a species that destroys what feeds it (habitat)and a species that cannot insure the continuance of its young, cannot survive on the planet.

In my books "The Final Empire" and "Garden Planet," I have detailed the ecological and cultural history of civilization (as well as solutions). In broad terms we as a species changed from a species that generally lived in balance with the ecological energy flows of the planet's life. (forager/hunters) With the development of agriculture and subsequently, our species has lived from biological accumulations that sustain the planet's life. (topsoil, forests, fish stocks, oil, etc) This is a parasitical rather than symbiotic relationship.

In my new book "Garden Planet" I have detailed an idealized form of human culture that can insure our living in balance with nature and can insure the organizing of a emotionally positive human culture.

In a consumer/push button society, people look for the silver bullet that will allow them to continue their present lifestyle without interruption. Urgently tinkering with energy technology is not a solution when the problem is based in the culture itself. (What the Culture deems is valuable).

I am offering my 500 page scholarly work, "The Final Empire: The Collapse of Civilization and the Seed of the Future," which is now out of print - as a free download - from www.rainbowbody.net/finalempire

My most recent work, which offers a compact idealization of the kind of adaptation to the planet we need to have as a human culture in order to make it into the future, can be found at www.gardenplanetbook.com

Dialog is invited!