What Happened Today? Wrote an article for Prudy who is having a hip replaced. Drove to the Largo Library. Watched a tape of the race at Bristol, won by Jeff Gordon. Kay and I went to Antonio’s for dinner.
GAIA- Planetary Management:
121. Now, however, we at eon the verge of widespread exploitation of the sun’s energy through solar cells– potentially as marked an advance for Earth’s course as that of photosynthesis itself.
122. Similar breakthroughs include domestication of wild species and genetic engineering: quantum leaps to match the evolution of sexual reproduction.
123. Among the greatest advances of all our ability to control disease, and thus to increase our numbers.
124. Within the last 150 years, the human population has grown from around one billion in 1830s, to two billion in the 1930s, to four billion in 1975, and to five billion in 1987, with a further increase to 6.25 billion projected by the end of the century.
125. Herein we witness the phenomenon of exponential growth, a process that marks not only our increasing numbers, but also our consumption of energy and resources, our accumulating knowledge, and our expanding communications network.