Forelaws on Board Universal forelaws of empathy and compassion - empirical attributes of cosmic genealogy seated within the genome of humankind and all intelligent life - form the foundation of evolutionary panaltruism on Earth, moving humanity to a compassionate/cooperative world order with new cornerstones for the United Nations, to global water equilibrium (the state of balance existing between seawater converted to freshwater amply available worldwide, on one side, and, on the other, constancy in planetary sea levels), to development of life-centered cosmologies and to active membership in the cosmic community of intelligent life (CCIL).& As part and parcel of the physical unity of being life-centered cosmologies in the age of cosmic genealogy on Earth reflect cognizance of the observable universe of humankind (13,000 million light years in all directions), of solar systems with and without intelligent life, and universal forelaws of empathy and compassion. More pronounced in modern times owing to scientific research and discovery merging astrobiology and astronomy as conducted and led by the late Sir Fred Hoyle, by Chandra Wickramasinghe, Brig Klyce, Halton C. Arp, and others, cosmic genealogy dates as an age on Earth from the landmark and pivotal work of Louis Pasteur in 1859 disproving spontaneous generation of life. ("Life comes from space because life comes from life." - Brig Klyce, Astrobiology Trust Fund). Intelligent life reciprocally propagated from infinity to infinity by empirical intelligent life, from habited sites to habitable sites, describes cosmic life realism clearly consistent with evolutionary panaltruism and life-centered cosmologies. Searches for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), such as the Kepler Mission and others, advance ultimate activism by humankind in the cosmic community of intelligent life: interconnected through communication (relayed and exchanged) within boundaries of observable universes and beyond via the phenomenon of overlapping observable universes. Evolutionary panaltruism and holistic forelawsship speak volumes for human unity, indefinable potential, and optimism destined to characterize the age of cosmic genealogy on Earth. Human potential and fulfillment rest, finally, on resolution of deep human needs to know from whence we came, safety and security, and on meaning and purpose (recognizing determinants consonant with universal forelaws of empathy and compassion: individual mate selection, nurturing of offspring, and early childhood education in a healthful, sustainable environment).<< "The human inclination toward goodness is strong, but it can be strengthened by specific social conditions." - Greater Good Science Center, University of California, Berkeley Project Ice-SHARE/Green Earth Project Ice-SHARE/Green Earth, proposed as a new cornerstone for the United Nations, seeks to achieve global water equilibrium, returning in the process inactive freshwater (ice) to Earth's hydrologic cycle. Global water equilibrium describes quantifiable seawater desalination in volume sufficient to achieve and maintain constancy in planetary sea levels - while functionally responding to polar wamder/pole shift, climate change, desertification, and the plight of low-lying coastal and island communities. Mandated and coordinated bh the United Nations, dramatically accelerated, expanded and sustain seawater desalination ensures (1) relief for member-states vulnerable to sea-level rise, (2) potable water amply available worldwide, (3) stabilization of ocean shorelines, (4) enlarged land mass/biomass on Earth, and (5) freshwater deposits where once resided coal and petroleum. Interport transportation of freshwater (converted from seawater), and freshwater (formerly inactive as ice) transported mainly from Antractica to distant land ports, stands to benefit cost-wise from surplus marine tanker capacity coincident with ongoing trends to green energy sources. As envisioned and proposed by Project Ice-SHARE/Green Earth, a growing network of pipelines (some already in place) will carry freshwater from land ports and desalination plants to all interior points where potable water is needed, including, predominantly, arid and semi-arid areas for purposes of irrigation (reversing desertification), as well as for replenishment of aquifers and the storage of freshwater both above and below ground. A cause whose time has come, unifying all of the family of humankind, seawater desalination together with the utilization for freshwater of tabular Antarctic icebergs"Iceberg Decay: Serving a Thirsty World"warrent preeminent agenda status at the first world summit on economic/societal sustainability. Toward this end, Antarctic Treaty Consultative Members are urged to undertake at the earliest possible time (preferably before ATCM XXXIII, 03 May - 14 May, 2010, Punta del Este, Uruguay) all appropriate steps preliminary to recommending a global task force on seawater desalination and implementation of Project Ice-SHARE/Green Earth under United Nations ( "and then there is the greatest opportunity of all, the prize of securing and safeguarding the planet for our generations to come." - UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, on global warming and The Stern Review. "Indispensable to the world of science which knows no national or other political boundaries, but is a document (the Antarctic Treaty) unique in history which may take its place alongside the Magna Carta and other great symbols of man's quest of enlightenment and order." - Dr. Laurence N. Gould, former chairman of the U.S. National Committee on Polar Research at the National Academy of Sciences. World Summitry on Economic/Societal Sustainability A compassionate world order on Earth faces challenges not least of which include terrorism, fossil fuels, nuclear weapons/energy, and the specter of international trade wars. World summitry on economic/societal sustainability, ensuring the unifying, forward-moving legacy of Kyoto, Rio+10 and Johannesburg, marshals previously untapped human cooperation, energy and resources toward creation of the compassionate global society. Itself sustained and embolden by scientific research validating the biological basis for human cooperation (Emory University) - like the first mission designed to search specifically for terrestrial-like planets (Kepler, 2009) - world summitry proposed on economic/societal sustainability embodies the quintessential unity and aspirations of all humanity. The transition on Earth to a compassionate world order built upon universal forelaws of empathy and compassion - involving societal breakthroughs basic to evolutionary panaltruism, i.e. (a) a healthful, sustainable environment for every planetary citizen, (b) universal health care publicly supported, (c) education for all based upon individual capability, (d) creative/productive employment for every planetary citizen, (e) post-retirement security - presupposes new cornerstones and new guidelines for the United Nations. Ending international terrorism by employing the total resources of the United Nations requires, primarily, remedial education emphasizing intrinsic, compassionate humanness and proper scrutiny of all social dichotomies ranging in realm from religous dogmas, to political ideologies, to economic systems. Although following a philosophy antithetical to evolutionary panaltruism, adherents of global terrorism carry the same gene of empathy and compassion joining together all members of the human family. World summitry on economic/societal sustainability draws global attention to a democratically planned and shared global economy (DPGE) infrastructured and dedicated to reverse desertification and sea-level rise through global water equilibrium (Project Ice-SHARE/Green Earth). Proposed as new cornerstones for the United Nations, a democratically planned and shared global economy and Project Ice-SHARE/Green Earth mark important progress toward societal sustainability, toward the compassionate/cooperative global society, and toward qualitative escalation of human values and relationships. Agenda items at the first and successive world summits on economic/societal sustainability necessarily include conflict resolution - overpopulation - world hunger - social justice - the integrity of the human gene pool - and the environmental impact of ascendant worldwide vegetarianism. "The good of society as a whole can be promoted through the science of positive and "prosocial" emotions and behaviors - for example, by studying emotions and behaviors such as compassion, respect, joy, trust, love, empathy, gratitude, and tolerance." - Greater Good Science Center, University of California, Berkeley Industrial Hemp Industrial hemp elicits appropriate recognition at world summitry on economic/societal sustainability. Challenging the DEMOCRATHON process ("people power" utilizing the Initiative and Referendum), significantly increased worldwide production of industrial hemp (re-introduction in the USA) - locally grown, processed and manufactured into products locally consumed (and exported/imported where in order) - is a realistic response, accompanied by others, to "Peak Oil" and the inevitable depletion of extractable petroleum. Any product made from petroleum (including high octane gasoline and plastics) can be made from industrial hemp. Industrial hemp seeds can produce food such as bread, hempburgers, milk and ice cream. Hemp fiberboard has been demonstrated to be twice the strength of wood fiberboard. "Hempcrete" blocks, "lighter, stronger and easier to work with than masonry concrete," have been manufactured at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota (start-up costs were under $10,000.00). "From Petrol to Agro: Seeds of a New Economy," by Dr. Robert E. Armstrong, Center for Technology and National Security, National Defense University, discusses the transition to renewable resources. The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) The search for extraterrestrial intelligence SETI) projects a positive, life-engaged future for humankind as part of life-centered cosmologies prevalent within the cosmic community of intelligent life. Although not alone as a harbinger of interplanetary/intergalactic communication and cosmic/intelligent life propagated from Earth, the Kepler Mission (scheduled by NASA in 2009 to monitor 100,000 stars for orbiting Earth-size planets) deserves extraordinary attention as the first space mission to search specifically for terrestrial-like planets. Kepler will be followed by Terrestrial Planet Finder, 2012-2015 and Darwin, 2014. A promising ally in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, the recent technology breakthrough by NASA will aid observation of planet formation and planet detection by suppressing the light of stars. This emerging expansion of cosmic focus and direction - likely to involve (complementing NASA) the European Space Agency (ESA), the Hubble Telescope, the International Space Station, and many if not most of Earth's space agencies and observatories - bodes well for life-centered cosmologies. "Darwinian evolution can produce variation that results from one or two point mutations, and can, by natural selection, lead to adaptation, or microevolution. But that is not the same as macroevolutionary progress requiring whole new genes that differ from known predecessors by dozens to hundreds of essential nucleotides. In strong panspermia, those new genes must be supplied from elsewhere . . . . . . . . . . Energy reaches Earth from the Sun, of course, but encoded instructions do not. We have long believed that evolutionary progress takes place in a biologically closed system, because we thought, until recently, that life could not survive in space." (Brig Klyce, founder of Cosmic Ancestry and Astrobiology Research Trust). "I suspect that the cosmic quality of microbiology will seem as obvious to future generations as the Sun being the centre of the solar systems seems obvious to the present generation" - Sir Fred Hoyle (from "The Relation of Biology to Astronomy," 1980). . . . . . "this essay will examine the possible role of viruses in the evolution of complexity, including the evolution of human-specific attributes." - from "Can Viruses Make Us Human?" by Dr. Luis P. Villarreal, Director, Center for Virus Research, University of California, Irvine. "Astrobiology has emerged as a new science for the new millennium. It seeks to understand life in the context of the wider cosmos. The new Centre will continue in the pioneering traditions of astrobiology started in Cardiff over 25 years ago, taking note of the many relevant discoveries that have been made in recent years. The Centre aims to combine the expertise of astronomers, biochemists and microbiologists to generate cutting edge science that would eventually enable us to answer the age-old question: where did we come from?" (Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe, director of Cardiff Centre for Astrobiology, and author of A Journey with Fred Hoyle - The Search for Cosmic Life, World Scientific, 2005). "The discovery of intergalactic seeds produced by intelligent life would immediately change our view of the origin and purpose of life on Earth, and improve our expectations for the future of life in this universe." (Robert T. Hemphill, from Searching for Signals from Civilizations Spreading Life Among the Galaxies). "A human being is part of the whole, called by us "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." - Albert Einstein "Of course, today, for science in particular, electronic communication makes possible communities of individuals from all corners of the world. The most direct evolution toward an enlightened science is for these groups to just go about supporting each other in doing science free of disproved, official assumptions." (Dr. Halton Arp, astronomer and author of Seemg Red, Apeiron, 1998). "knowledge gained is always subject to further testing as understanding matures" - The Center for Naturalism. "I am certain and have always stressed that the destination of mankind is to become more and more humane. The ideal of humanity has to be revived." - Albert Schweitzer Compassionate/cooperative humanity, appreciative of the grandeur and import of cosmic genealogy, concerns itself with life-centered issues and questions including cosmologies - polar wamder/pole shift - climate change - the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) - infinities in nature unrelated to mathematics and physics - the strong version of panspermia (Cosmic Ancestry) - Viruses in the Evolution of Life (Villarreal, 2005) - locally developed horizontal gene transfer (HGTE) and cosmic/intelligent life propagated from Earth (CLPE), both keyed to evolutionary panaltruism - ground rules apropos to "artificial life" and "synthetic biology" how do solar flares impact climate on Earth? - parent star stabilization/solar energy constancy - industrial hemp - ethical vegetarianism - the terraforming of Mars - the overlapping of observable universes as a communicative mechanism for intelligent life - education coming to grips creatively with origins, meaning and purpose - all in testament to "concern for others and for those who will succeed us . . . . . " (The Center for Naturalism). "Whatever you can do . . . . . or believe you can . . . . . begin it Boldness has magic . . . . . power . . . . . and genius in it." Johnne Goethe Links to additional internal webpages, and external websites, at home page The Compassionate/Cooperative Global Society Forelaws on Board [email protected] Last Edited 5/06/08 |