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 Industrial Hemp Industrial hemp in the age of cosmic genealogy on Earth - locally grown, processed and manufactured into products locally consumed (and exported/imported where in order) - becomes a realistic response among 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. Challenging the DEMOCRATHON process ("people power" utilizing the Initiative and Referendum), significantly increased worldwide production of industrial hemp (re-introduction in the USA) is integral to the basics of evolutionary panaltruism: (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. The Compassionate Global Society, needful of replacing petroleum and other fossil fuels with renewable resources, is heavily dependent upon industrial hemp. A uniquely versatile plant requiring no genetic modification, industrial hemp can supply energy, food, clothing, paper and in fact all of the construction materials presently obtained from trees. Almost without exception in studies dealing with global warming the role of trees and forests is underscored time and again. Every tree, beyond its intrinsic and natural beauty, becomes significant as a sponge for carbon dioxide, a purifier of air, a dependable standby for erosion control, a helper in sustaining water table levels, and more. Industrial hemp can (1) reverse the conversion of forests to pastures, (2) arrest the utilization of forests for papermaking, (3) provide an alternative to the use of trees for building materials, (4) assist in the restoration of water table levels. "Since 1937 about half the forests in the world have been cut down to make paper. If hemp had not been outlawed, most would still be standing, oxygenating the planet." This observation, made editorially in a conservative California newspaper in 1988, is also relevant to forests cleared for grazing purposes (hemp seeds can produce bread, hempburgers, cheese, milk and ice cream), as well as to building materials (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 from industrial hemp at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota (start-up costs were under $10,000.00). At first sight even the most minimal government intervention - when touching on legally and deeply entrenched property rights of landowners - would appear to be formidable. A plausible solution to this problem lies with the existence of cultivable federal and state-owned lands. Proactive legislative approaches might include (1) land exchange programs (private for federal and/or state), (2) the cultivation of industrial hemp on federal and state-owned lands (with profits used to promote and subsidize the conversion of privately-owned pastured-lands to lands primarily devoted to industrial hemp and/or fruit and nut production - the subsidies continuing until acceptable levels of income are reached, (3) depending on land suitability, direct government assistance (federal and state) for the conversion of privately-owned pastured-lands to lands used for growing both industrial hemp and trees (food-producing and non-food producing). Such legislation would take into account the property rights of landowners while encouraging positive environmentalism and the needs of the community as a whole. "From Petrol to Agro: Seeds of a New Economy," by Dr. Robert E. Armstrong, Center for Technology and National Security Policy, National Defense University, discusses the transition to renewable resources. Current information on industrial hemp is available from The North American Industrial Hemp Council. 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 - involving the basics of evolutionary panaltruism described above - 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 economic/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 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. "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. "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 system seems obvious to the present generation." - Sir Fred Hoyle (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 merging astrobiology and astronomy - 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 5/18/09 |
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