What Happened Today? Feather Sound walk with Kay. Drove to the Tampa office. Another hectic day. Brainstormed upcoming session with Bill Stenger/DuPont. Oakland Athletics going for 20th win in a row.
GAIA- Planetary Management:
171. Out of crisis can come advance, provided the impetus of change does not “overshoot” into catastrophe.
172. On past occasions, there have been thousands of years, even millions, for the corrective workings of the biosphere to adapt and adjust to new stresses.
173. This time, there are just a few decades, far too short a period for Gaia to work its restorative course, unless it is done with the symbiotic support of humankind.
174. If we can match up to the crisis, Gaia may well move forward into an unprecedented period of development– development in its proper broad sense, embracing development of Earth’s resources and of humanity’s capacity for caring.
175. If, however, we fail, Homo sapiens, could eventually be discarded as an evolutionary blind-alley.