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The Choice Facing Us: Greatness or Oblivion?

The User's Profile Chris Martenson July 13, 2019
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Executive Summary

  • The Earth will be fine. But humans?
  • We can break free from our biological programming. But it will take conscious effort.
  • How to shift your personal destiny
  • Want to work with a dedicated group on shifting yours? Stay tuned…

If you have not yet read Part 1: Do You Truly Have Free Will?, available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.

I don’t need to pull any punches here among Peak Prosperity’s paid subscribers, as you all know this well: humans are at a very dangerous juncture of history.

We might decide to be smart and create a brilliant future for ourselves. But the current odds favor our species defaulting into oblivion.

The Earth won’t care. It’s got an entire museum warehouse filled with failed species, all for one reason or another.  Evolution is busy solving the most complex of problems, and failure is one of its most commonly employed tools.

Michael Crichton put it very well in Jurassic Park:

You think man can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. Let me tell you about our planet. Earth is four-and-a-half-billion-years-old. There’s been life on it for nearly that long, 3.8 billion years. Bacteria first; later the first multicellular life, then the first complex creatures in the sea, on the land. Then finally the great sweeping ages of animals, the amphibians, the dinosaurs, at last the mammals, each one enduring millions on millions of years, great dynasties of creatures rising, flourishing, dying away — all this against a background of continuous and violent upheaval. Mountain ranges thrust up, eroded away, cometary impacts, volcano eruptions, oceans rising and falling, whole continents moving, an endless, constant, violent change, colliding, buckling to make mountains over millions of years. Earth has survived everything in its time.

It will certainly survive us. If all the nuclear weapons in the world went off at once and all the plants, all the animals died and the earth was sizzling hot for a hundred thousand years, life would survive, somewhere: under the soil, frozen in Arctic ice.

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Thanks for sharing this Chris. I agree with you that if humanity is to get through the bottleneck of this century then to quote Eckhart...
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