Wednesday, April 03, 2002

Has Cancer Been the Dominant Form of Life? Cancer cells have no sense of identity with the body as a whole. They cells view the body as just a growing field. They reproduce at a much higher rate than do normal cells. If they are not stopped, they will over-run the body and eventually destroy it. Usually, this results when the cancer tissue damages a critical sub-system with their overgrowth. Cancer tissues are not dominant. Healthy organisms and tissues are dominant. In most populations of animals and humans cancer is rare. That is because in the vast majority of body's whether animal or human the cancer cells are detected by the immune system and destroyed. ... Humanity must become a single system with a single body. Then we must develop an immune system that controls individual cell reproduction. At the moment we have far too many "cells" (human individuals) and no one should be allowed to reproduce at all. We must reduce the human population drastically. We may have to limit reproduction to every other generation. Or to less than 5% of population zero levels.  (04/03/02) When Winning is Losing This "way of life" seemed to work out for the natives in many places, but they were overrun by those who did not abide to the "rules". Not abiding to the rule is always a great temptation as it grants short term personal gain. So the whole idea works against the way of nature where the "strongest" survive and conquer the weak. That could be the simple explanation why 98% of all species havent made it so far, but died in the process of evolution, competition and changing environments. Organisms living a sustainable life is "by nature" outperformed by organims living above their means (like modern humans) that in so doing are short term becoming stronger than the sustainable lifeforms that are thus eradicated. In the end however the unsustainable way of life must end or the organism living an unsustainable life will experience dieoff. Another option is to evolve to become a sustainable living organism but then you become the target for the next unsustainably living organisms. Thus life might be seen as a problem with no optimal solution ! The strong today are the weak tomorrow.  (04/03/02) 6:36:25 AM     Localization Rather Than Globalization Helena Norberg-Hodge writes: Localization is about shortening the distance between producers and consumers. It is not about eliminating all trade, but rather about reducing to an absolute minimum the exorbitant waste now caused by having everything from butter to raw logs crisscrossing the globe. Localization needs to happen simultaneously in both the North and the South. As things stand today, roughly 50 percent of the world's population is still rurally based - the majority of them are in the South. It is vital that everything is done to prevent this proportion from declining. ... In the rural villages of the South, life can be undeniably hard. But villagers can at least grow a few vegetables, maybe keep some chickens or even a cow, and they can rely on friends and family for help with agricultural work. In the slums of the big cities, by contrast, they suddenly become dependent on hard cash for all their basic needs. What's more, every single thing they consume has to be brought in from outside, increasing CO2 emissions and placing a further burden on the environment. (04/02/02) Beyond the 2% Solution Paul Hawken writes:  Measurements of energy-calories, BTUs, kilowatt-hours-are ways to indicate the amount of work a given amount of oil, gas, or electricity can accomplish. In the US, for every 100 units of energy that we introduce into our economic system nearly 98 units are wasted. That's right, we are 2% efficient.  ... In industry, huge cost and energy savings can be attained as we shift away from the petrochemically dependent reactive chemistry that has produced a witch's brew of compounds that permeate our environment with toxins. New enzymatic techniques not only promise safer compounds, but low-temperature manufacturing the can reduce energy cost by 90%.  ... We can continue to be the most profligate nation in the world with respect to energy, or we can begin to become the most brilliant and innovative. We lead in so many areas of technology. We can do it with energy too. Mark Twain said that you can't see if your imagination is out of focus. To focus the imagination of a nation, a country that is economically strong and environmentally conservative requires just one quality: leadership out of the oil age, not halting backward steps into it.  (04/02/02) Less Than the Sum of Its Parts As neutrality fails, large neutral organizations have begun merging in an attempt to remain viable. Some of these efforts are not working and may result in the death of these superOrganizations. This article discusses the experience of AOL-Time Warner. It may also serve as a warning to Hewlett Packard-Compaq. (04/02/02) 5:39:59 AM

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