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If billions of us Primates will not change, the one single Climate will change us!
For love of the great apes, I have been thinking of inviting people to join in the grand adventure of The Late Great
Planet Earth – it’s late but not too late to be great. Global Warming, The Beast is yet to come, even if Al Gore
warned us 30 years ago. Just remember one thing: If we can’t be great this time, we can’t be. With finality,
Hamlet’s soliloquy haunts us: ‘To be or not to be, that is the question.’
Now then, I present here what I have defined as 7 Primal Instructions for sapient primates to build the Second
Noah’s Ark, to inspire sagacious primates to their late (hopefully not their last) great act of kindness to the planet
and therefore to themselves:
(1) Visit the Global Village.
(2) Make out the Blogal Village.
(3) Take the road not taken.
(4) Choose the high road.
(5) Speak of reason.
(6) Declare your faith.
(7) Wage peace, not war.
Warning: We need to change
perspective about Climate
Change. Houston, we have a
problem. The Global Village is
fact in that the electric impulse
connects us all through the
Internet, as Marshall McLuhan
predicted, yet the Global Village
is fiction in that the connection
is divisive and not distributive,
elitist and not equitable, devoid
of commitment to community,
without a shared vision.
Come see that you are part of it and can’t be an outsider even
if you want to. Come realize the bloggers’ village. Come see
about making a difference. Come see the need for ideals.
Come see the need to be rational. Come see the need to be
hopeful. Come see the promise of peace and the premise of
war. Come one, come all!
(1) Primate, come visit the global village.
If you’re not with me, you’re against me. Looking at the Internet
as a global network of electronic structures and systems designed
for unlimited interactions through messages sent back and forth,
I see irresistible Promise, but I don’t see intense Practice in terms
of translating the Global Village from virtual to verifiable. I see
the Internet denizens still have to get their acts together to make
the Net a major tool for thinking global, thinking local, acting
global, acting local. As of today, it’s more scenes than sense,
more bravado than brave, more sex than sexy, more invites than
inviting, more tease than ease, more disarray than array. The
Net is still as daunting to use as it was in the beginning – and
ever shall be?
Primate Change? Or Climate Change?