A brief note to any would-be survivors

Whichever way you look at it, we are all (as far as I know) part of the gene pool that achieved global "dominance" at the expense of a colossal proportion of the rest of the natural world. Think of us as the descendants of thieves and marauders who raped and pillaged and laid waste to everything in their path.

Americans and Britons in particular can grasp this point via a rudimentary awareness of their country's history, but on the larger scale all Homo so-called sapiens are party to the vicious millennia of carnage that included the "clever" elimination of our physically stronger Neanderthal cousins.

Today, human society still lauds the Alpha Male - who is nothing but the most self-centred and ablest destroyer in the pack. They may look as comical as Donald Trump or as glinty-eyed as Tony Blair, but they are simply examples of Darwinism at its finest.

It is therefore unsurprising that we are where we are today, presiding over a shit-on-our-own-doorstep environment that is really tired of us and will respond in fitting manner in due course through some form of natural correction.

All talk of changing our "civilisation" is redundant. Here's the rub (pun intended):

We can no sooner try to change the way we are than a slug can try not to leave a trail of slime.

The smart answer might be to pull the plug on ourselves, but I'm sure the vast majority would rather remain exactly the way they are - striving to amass worthless currency and silly possessions while the tableau that is their home planet degrades until it reaches the point when it must slough off most of us to cleanse itself.

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Good but smells of disgust, disappointment, disillusionment and dispair.

And I say those emotions or the aftertaste of them are not necessary among those who understand and accept the Universe as it is.

Our likes and dislikes are entirely man-made and only relevant to the extent they are within the bounds of the trajectory of evolutionary process.

When homo cogitans finally take over the scortched planet from homo sapiens they will not be amotional about their past but will focus all their energy on how to manage their own numbers and create and maintain the environment in which ignorant new-borns are raised to become truly eusocial Homo Cogitans.

We are long way to go to that moment in the distant (or not so distant future) but we still can contribute to it (which you already do with your own learning and rebroadcasting findings of others).

I think we should save our emotional energy for that not waste it on negative amotions of pittying ourselves or being dissappointed to be the instance of Homo Sapiens.

I think you have all the right to be proud to be, even in small, but nonetheless material, degree different by registering and reacting to what you observe.

You are one of the Homo Sapiens at its best as transitional form to Homo Cogitans.

This is what we should celebrate and remind ourselves everytime we are dragged down by the sight of the "scortched planet" and manifestation of dictum "homo homini lupus est"