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OVERCOMING the THREAT to Our FUTURE
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x PRESS RELEASE David Anderson shares insights on 'Overcoming the Threat to Our Future' New book takes a deeper look at the relationship between Homo sapiens and planet earth and the cosmos BOCA RATON, Fla. – The world is being faced with an existential threat. There is the possibility of human extinction. And unlike threats in the past to all forms of life on the planet, this one will not be determined by a random meteorite/asteroid or natural planetary happening. It will be species' self-inflicted. We are that species. “Overcoming the Threat to Our Future” calls for a radically different understanding of the relationship between Homo sapiens and planet earth and the cosmos. It challenges the implicit ecological legitimacy of the political, social, religious and economic institutions on which our modern world society is grounded. It says that what we have believed to be the "inherent truths" grounding these institutions were built on geo-ecological flaws. It describes in detail these flaws. It calls for these flaws to be addressed now. It says that if they are not, enormous pain and suffering will soon come to all life on our planet. With this book, Anderson gives the reader an opportunity to develop a deeper understanding of the problem, and our role in solving it.
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About the Author David Anderson over his career was an international risk manager and senior executive at several of America’s premier multinational institutions. During that period he became increasingly aware of the underlying cultural and institutional causes of past and present civilizational dysfunction and conflict. In his writings, he brings together a wide range of interests; namely history, evolutionary anthropology, theology, philosophy, geopolitics and economics. His first book “Holy War: The Blood of Abraham” was published in 2004. It explored the underlying religious forces driving today's Jewish/Christian/Islamic conflict. “The Infidels,” a second book centering on Islam was published two years later. His interest then turned to those underlying societal images that were directing not only the American political process but also the future of our civilization. Over the past 12 years, he has been writing “Overcoming the Threat to Our Future.” The book calls for a radically different understanding of the relationship between Homo sapiens and planet earth and the cosmos. .
CONTENTS
FOREWORD .
OUR BIOSPHERE PROBLEM OUR CRANIAL PROBLEM OUR AMERICAN PROBLEM OUR GLOBAL PROBLEM . # 1 A Lesson from Socrates Part I Flash of a firefly in the night Part II When Lies become truths Part III Religious and Sophistic behavior in the 21st Century # 2 A Warning from Sigmund Freud # 3 The Anthropomorphic God of Abraham Part I Yahweh Part II Dancing with the Devil in defiance of Cosmic Order # 4 Human Civilization - The Future Part I Our Ecological Dilemma Part II The Journey from Wasps and Ants to Bonobos, Apes and Chimpanzees to Homo Australopithecus and Homo Neanderthalensis and then to Homo sapiens Part III Homo economicus we have all become Part IV “longue durée” Part V Thought Periods Part VI Ecologically Destructive Institutions Part VII The Bridge Part VIII Survival Part IX Population Growth Part X Tipping Points - Next Three Generations Part XI The Ecological Threat from Islam Part XII Freedom Part XIII A New Axial Age ? Part XIV Egyptian Reflections on our Future # 5 A Clue from the Monastery at Nag Hammadi # 6 Back to Lascaux Part I Co-Creation in the Dordogne Part II Richard Tarnas - Nature's unfolding truth # 7 The Sumerian Problem Part I Scripture Part II Beyond Scripture # 8 A Dangerous Negative Zero Sum Game—The "Chicago School" vs the Planet Part I From Adam Smith to Milton Friedman to Alan Greenspan Part II George Soros Part III The Increase in the Emissions of CO2 and a Methane Hydrate Feedback Loop Part IV An Economic Solution for the Emissions of CO2 and a Methane Hydrate Feedback Loop # 9 Forging a New Global Ethic for Planetary Survival - “The Tragedy of The Commons” #10 Reinventing the Sacred in the Age of the Cosmos Part I Hebraic vs Hellenic Thought Part II The Enlightenment - Materialistic Determinism Part III Our Industrial Civilization Part IV Our Future Part V The War between the Rational and the Irrational Mind
ADDENDUM
Appendix # I Joseph Campbell’s MONOMYTH Appendix # II Looking Back on the Limits to Growth Appendix # III An Open Letter to Paul Krugman
A warning from: Richard Leakey
I have always been fascinated by the lives of the Leakeys. The Leaky family were prime movers in establishing a tradition of palaeoanthropological inquiry. I visited the Leakey museum at the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania in 1983. There I met Mary. Among her many accomplishments was the discovery of the Laetoli footprints; proof that hominids walked upright as far back as 3.6 million years ago. Richard Leakey followed in the footsteps of his famous father. He began his work searching for fossils in the mid 1960s. His team unearthed a nearly complete 1.6-million-year-old skeleton in 1984 that became known as "Turkana Boy," then the first known early human with long legs, short arms and a tall stature. Richard Leakey's following 2012 statement which I recorded in my journal has far reaching implications for the future of our species: Huff Post by FRANK ELTMAN 05/26/12 Evolution Debate Soon Will Be History Richard Leakey "We may be on the cusp of some very real disasters. If you look back, the thing that strikes you, if you've got any sensitivity, is that extinction is the most common phenomena. Extinction is always driven by environmental change. Environmental change is always driven by climate change. Man is now accelerating, if not creating, planet change phenomena; I think we have to recognize that the future is by no means a very rosy one."
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