The Environment Hoax–The Hoax Is On Those Who Told You It Was Not True

Or maybe the Hoax Is That the Non-Hoaxers Were Also Hoaxed Into Believing In The Wrong Cause That Led To the Wrong Solution

Radical Environmental

ken taylor’s version of environmental truth. the truth that makes ken taylor a fool. before you reject the foolishness try to comprehend it’s not completely unfactual in its surmises.

After college I began to study utility companies and led to a lifelong-passion about energy.  But my passion for the environment dates at least to my first reading of Rachel Carson’s The Silent Spring back in ‘62.

But way before then I had an affiliation with the violence of nature.  A typhoon hit Yokohama when we were in Japan and while my father was shuttering the windows, I escaped outside and found myself locked out.  It didn’t matter.  Again in Cuba a hurricane hit the base at Guantanamo Bay.  And again I climbed out my window and faced the storm.  Throughout my life I have had a passion to go out in thunderstorms and challenge myself running towards the storm. I don’t, however, enjoy camping at a lake or at a campground.  But on my first walk across the U.S. from Tampa Bay to San Diego back in '72 and  my second walk from Richmond, Virginia to Salt Lake in ‘80, I would climb into my sleeping bag when I found secluded spots to throw it down without a tent.  I did tie a lean-to between trees and place my bag beneath it because it was difficult to dry it and tie on to my backpack after the rain.  I love to run during snowstorms (but slow way down when driving through them).  

But I despise postcards of serene mountain lakes and snow covered fields after the snow has ceased falling.  So I guess my view of nature is that the moments others find disruptive to their lives, I find in its tumultuousness the nature of earth that enables life to thrive.  Without the snow falling down, no postcards of the aftermath.  We moved from being posted in Newfoundland to being posted at Guantanamo and I enjoyed  both climates equally.  And I spent ten years living in the Sonoran desert and suffered no consequences from the heat living without any air conditioning.

Well that’s me, and everyone says that proves I’m a total nutcake.  After all man attempts to be in charge of nature, to control it and to the best of his ability control it from detracting him from his desire to treat nature as it might treat a recalcitrant child.

  We find nature threatening and disruptive and we say that extreme weather events are all life-threatening.

Well they are life-threatening to those unconditioned for them.  And large portions of humanity are unconditioned.  But the hominids as a species were by nature itself a species that survived and thrived across the globe because it was an extremely adaptive species that was not limited to surviving in just one clime or with only one food source.  We can do so again if we quit bemoaning “climate change” and begin to use our innate abilities to adapt.  Or we can continue to attempt to try to induce nature to adapt to how we think it should act and not disrupt our lives so dastardly.

What we are calling climate change, well that’s what our earth does naturally.  When there is catastrophic interference with the earth, it makes catastrophic adjustments.  If too many species die from the change then amazingly enough the earth refashions new species with a new balance and continues as it continues, however it continues.

And yes, humanity has affected catastrophic change upon the earth and so catastrophic realignment will be made and that’s just how it is.  

But the catastrophic changes are not simply automobile exhaust and burning fossil fuels.  It is the manner that we have ourselves induced innumerable catastrophic changes in our attempt to own land and reshape it in our interest.  And that is what is going to change.  It has been discovered that nature has been busy turning our artificially created substances like plastic into its own natural elements.  Rocks have been discovered that have melded plastics into themselves and using the chemicals we utilized in making plastic into a new substance.  Not either encasing the other, but both melding together into a new substance.

https://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/eyes-on-environment/plastic_rock_the_new_anthropogenic/

Man has done a lot more harm to the environment he inherited.  He has destroyed the natural alignment of species.  He has destroyed landscapes by planting large pastures of only one crop instead of harvesting what nature needs to mix together.  He has plumbed into its depths to mine materials no longer needed by the earth at its last reconstruction.  He has thought himself intelligent enough to combine elements and chemicals to create items that nature had not yet done, might never had done.  

Worst of all man has quit being responsible for his own survival and has concentrated himself in cities that need their survivable necessities brought in, and then disposes of all of his waste into huge facilities, systems or landfills that simply have too much waste all collected together.  And boy do we waste stuff.

Waste is a natural byproduct of all species, but unconcentrated, can easily become the source for other life. Every time you poop you are creating an environmental change.  The energy your body needs to survive extracts the waste, the same as a coal plant extracting its waste into CO2 that then becomes an alteration of the environment.  But pooping though, nature has such diversity that your waste becomes the energy for other species to survive and the cycle of diversity continues.  Nature has such an efficiency in its diversity that even though poop alters the environment, the alteration is naturally absorbed into maintaining a reasonable sustainability. But if you flush your waste into a toilet and there are a lot of flushings and a lot of waste, then man needs to control the waste through processing it so that the amount of waste and the lifeforms nature has designed to process that waste don’t overwhelm the producers (humans) of such waste and make their lives more perilous.  This is a typical, very simple, and usually considered beneficially healthful to human survivability.  Nevertheless, this a catastrophic change and man has to design his own process to deal with the crisis apart from the processes nature itself designed to do so.

What we seem to fail to understand is that all of this creates environmental altercation.  What we fail to understand is nature has to be as it has to be; and if we alter the way it is then we won’t be able to control what it becomes.  But we still think we can.

The problem we encounter is that our technological solutions will still affect the environment with our solutions that are still attempts to subdue nature into obediently obeying the rod of our control.

If we wish to survive, then we accept our fallacious attempts at authority over nature and let it reshape itself.  If a hurricane destroys our structures we don’t rebuild our structures, we let nature rebuild itself and then we adapt to its adaptation and the new environment it creates.  There is no better example of this than the area around Chernobyl  that has become a thriving wonderland of plant and animal species since man has abandoned trying to interfere with that landscape.  

One of the properties of the isness of this planet is that no matter what happens to its surface, its waters or its atmosphere, life reinvigorates itself with new species,etc.  The kind of life we recognize as lifeforms.  Again I don’t know why, but there is a teleological need to do so that I don’t believe has anything to do with a designer, but is definitely the design we live within.  But if there is no designer, then that must include us, and it is our attempts to design our environment that is now creating our “environmental upheaval”.

To continue our attempts to be the designer, the gods so to speak, of the environment, will seal our fate.  We will survive as a species only if we become capable of adapting to the changes that are to come.  It will not come on our timetable, nor will it come as we may think it will. The problem with trying to determine a timetable to reign in or alter certain behaviors that affect the environment is that there is no real way to control how nature will attempt to punish us as a recalcitrant species.  Our computer models cannot predict what is going to reliably occur or try to confine the changes that will occur to fluctuations in temperature. What is known is that whenever nature undergoes a catastrophic reshaping of itself, it has never reshaped similarly, land masses might shift, volcanoes might explode, and what environment that emerges will not be the environment that had formerly  been, and even the species that had existed may developed evolutionarily into new, or somewhat altered species.

But the earth will survive and remain the earth and new life forms will evolutionize within that environment and will indeed survive or not survive by becoming a part of the creation of the environment that the species survive within.  The relationship of the environment and the species is complex, but somehow united in that the species need the environment to survive and the earth is refashioned and re-environmentalized by the species that survive.  We are entering the beginning of a punctualized stage in this planet’s history.

If we are able to survive will depend on if we can adapt to the future or if we continue to think we are a determinative factor in how the earth replenishes itself.

But one thing is probably certain, we were and are a determinative factor that has become the catastrophic effect of the dissettlement of the environment and the reason a new environment is now beginning to develop.