The Pain Of Our Earth PDF Download

Disposable Earth is a collection of essays on the climate crisis. It is meant to awaken and immerse one into the tough existential questions the crisis has thrown at us: beyond the effects and impacts on the climate that we witness with our own eyes, and into what actually started it all: what is much less visible, and which goes back hundreds, thousands of years ago when our failed civilisations were still in their infancy. For some of us this is a painful journey deep into ourselves and our past. A journey that many of us don't want to take at any cost, for fear of coming face to face with our failings as a species. But this book spares no truth. Prepare to feel exposed, sometimes ashamed. Prepare for your world view to be shaken, in the same way that I'm prepared to be labelled a doomist, alarmist and even misanthrope by some. But I feel it is my duty to have my personal moment of reckoning with my own species and the hundreds of generations of my ancestors, about our civilisation and what it has come to. I'm doing this for myself and for all the humans that came before me, taxed with the burden and responsibility of being the first generation aware of the dead end ahead. I feel that I carry the weight of everyone who came before me, in finding a solution. As a molecular biologist, chemist and food scientist, I cannot help but approach the climate crisis partly through a methodic systems approach that combines science, economics and psychology, and aims to simplify what is the most complex issue we have ever faced. I often use the simplistic Anthropo-sin diagram to illustrate this. But at the same time, I also approach the issue from a deeply spiritual place, trying to understand, and expose, the deep crisis in the human psyche which is responsible for our predicament. I tap into my own personal experiences living and surviving within the traumatising civilisation we have created, and I am driven, sometimes with a mix of frustration and desperation, sometimes by grief, but always by the existential urgency that climate change has awoken in many of us. I believe that this crisis lies much deeper than the social, economic and political systems that comprise our failed civilisation. It is about who we are, and the fact that we have lost sense of what happiness is. I often draw yet again from my scientific background as I try to understand, from an evolutionary and biological perspective why, we humans, do the things that we do, which often seem to make no sense.Although Disposable Earth is in many ways a continuation of the Age of Separateness and the Climate Change Within, my entire body of work so far revolves around the struggle to exist as a human in the modern age. My goal with my books and blogs is to try and reveal, to set free, the Other Human that resides in each of us, a human who has been suppressed, traumatised, silenced and forgotten by centuries of capitalism, colonialist oppression and the CO2 life-support Machine which all of us are hooked up to. Although we are living through the most uncertain and terrifying time to be a human, this is also a time to feel more alive, more purposeful than ever: a time when we are being forced by our Planet to finally think seriously about who we are, who we thought we were, and where we see ourselves in the future, if we want to have one. I hope these essays help you to find a small piece of your Other Human.