EXTINCTION THREATS
Manmade-extinction problems,
such as climate change and nuclear war,
show that humanity suffers from systemic-mental-failure.
such as climate change and nuclear war,
show that humanity suffers from systemic-mental-failure.
Nemonik Thinking is your most valuable asset. It is more precious than all the jewels and gold in the world together. The quality of your thinking determines the quality of your entire life. Manmade-extinction-problems, such as climate change and nuclear war, are irrefutable evidence that humanity’s conventional way of thinking is failing dramatically. That systemic-mental-failure drives humanity rapidly towards extinction. Right now, you are sitting on top of the mast aboard the sinking Titanic. Manmade-extinction-problems threaten your life, your loved ones, and your wealth.
The current atmospheric CO2 concentration is about 400 ppm (parts per million). The manmade concentration is even lower. Only 100 ppm. Some believe that it is too low to heat up the planet. On the other hand, the Secretary-general of the United Nations, António Guterres, has warned us that 2050 is the year of no-return for climate change. In his defense, the barometric pressure at sea level is equal to about a 10-meter (10,000mm) column of water. Assuming that the components of the atmosphere have an average density of 1 (like water), the liquefied atmosphere would be about 10,000 mm thick. The thickness of the 400ppm CO2 layer in the liquefied atmosphere would be: (400/1,000,000) x 10,000mm = 4mm. That 4mm layer of liquid insulation could validate Guterres warning. In addition, the ozone concentration is only 10 ppb (parts per billion). Nevertheless, that tiny concentration reflects enough ultraviolet light to prevent skin cancer. Hence, it cannot be excluded that a relatively small concentration of CO2 could create climate change.
After Guterres' warning, it does not matter anymore whether climate change is artificial, natural, true, or false. Those discussions are moot. Since the Kyoto Protocol, global leaders have failed to prevent global warming. As a result, they are likely to shift from prevention to preparation, which will reduce our global resources and damage our infrastructure. To add fuel to the fire, nine countries have more than 12,000 nuclear warheads. Hence, Guterres might be an optimist. Geopolitical competition for dwindling resources might drive humanity towards a global nuclear conflict before 2050.
The educational system conditions students with rewards and punishments to compete like rats in a maze. Good is just not good enough. You have to be better than the other students, because the grading system is relative. Your grade is based on the grades of all your fellow students. The ‘winners’ are rewarded power, status, and wealth by society. Students who do not compete will not obtain high scores. Those ‘losers’ are forced by society to do the hard work for little pay.
Although competition can be beneficial; in education it is currently detrimental. Competition fosters: conflict, control, force, polarization, deception, and win-lose strategies. Each of those features fuels the already explosive situation. The conditioned urge to win competitions fosters the use of rationalizations, rather than rational thinking; justifications, rather than justice; and criticism, rather than critical thinking. Students learn to win arguments, rather than solving problems. Furthermore, educational tests foster the use of memory, rather than thinking. That creates a way of static thinking that is doomed to fail in our hyperdynamic reality.
Education fosters science. Science provides by definition knowledge without wisdom, morality, compassion, and accountability. However, those missing concepts determine the quality of your life. They make you human. Science fosters also technology, while technology fosters manmade-extinction-problems such as climate change and nuclear war. Technology has also changed the static reality in a hyperdynamic one, while education still fosters static-thinking. Thinking is not even a topic on the educational curriculum. Consequently, education kills humanity.
Despite the overwhelming evidence for its devastating failure, education still conditions people to defend its conventional-thinking with cognitive-dissonance and groupthink. That futile protection only accelerates the disaster. Albert Einstein warned us that we cannot solve problems with the same way of thinking that has created them. Consequently, we need a fundamental improvement of our thinking long before 2050. Therefore, humanity needs Nemonik Thinking and Manhattan-2045.
The current atmospheric CO2 concentration is about 400 ppm (parts per million). The manmade concentration is even lower. Only 100 ppm. Some believe that it is too low to heat up the planet. On the other hand, the Secretary-general of the United Nations, António Guterres, has warned us that 2050 is the year of no-return for climate change. In his defense, the barometric pressure at sea level is equal to about a 10-meter (10,000mm) column of water. Assuming that the components of the atmosphere have an average density of 1 (like water), the liquefied atmosphere would be about 10,000 mm thick. The thickness of the 400ppm CO2 layer in the liquefied atmosphere would be: (400/1,000,000) x 10,000mm = 4mm. That 4mm layer of liquid insulation could validate Guterres warning. In addition, the ozone concentration is only 10 ppb (parts per billion). Nevertheless, that tiny concentration reflects enough ultraviolet light to prevent skin cancer. Hence, it cannot be excluded that a relatively small concentration of CO2 could create climate change.
After Guterres' warning, it does not matter anymore whether climate change is artificial, natural, true, or false. Those discussions are moot. Since the Kyoto Protocol, global leaders have failed to prevent global warming. As a result, they are likely to shift from prevention to preparation, which will reduce our global resources and damage our infrastructure. To add fuel to the fire, nine countries have more than 12,000 nuclear warheads. Hence, Guterres might be an optimist. Geopolitical competition for dwindling resources might drive humanity towards a global nuclear conflict before 2050.
The educational system conditions students with rewards and punishments to compete like rats in a maze. Good is just not good enough. You have to be better than the other students, because the grading system is relative. Your grade is based on the grades of all your fellow students. The ‘winners’ are rewarded power, status, and wealth by society. Students who do not compete will not obtain high scores. Those ‘losers’ are forced by society to do the hard work for little pay.
Although competition can be beneficial; in education it is currently detrimental. Competition fosters: conflict, control, force, polarization, deception, and win-lose strategies. Each of those features fuels the already explosive situation. The conditioned urge to win competitions fosters the use of rationalizations, rather than rational thinking; justifications, rather than justice; and criticism, rather than critical thinking. Students learn to win arguments, rather than solving problems. Furthermore, educational tests foster the use of memory, rather than thinking. That creates a way of static thinking that is doomed to fail in our hyperdynamic reality.
Education fosters science. Science provides by definition knowledge without wisdom, morality, compassion, and accountability. However, those missing concepts determine the quality of your life. They make you human. Science fosters also technology, while technology fosters manmade-extinction-problems such as climate change and nuclear war. Technology has also changed the static reality in a hyperdynamic one, while education still fosters static-thinking. Thinking is not even a topic on the educational curriculum. Consequently, education kills humanity.
Despite the overwhelming evidence for its devastating failure, education still conditions people to defend its conventional-thinking with cognitive-dissonance and groupthink. That futile protection only accelerates the disaster. Albert Einstein warned us that we cannot solve problems with the same way of thinking that has created them. Consequently, we need a fundamental improvement of our thinking long before 2050. Therefore, humanity needs Nemonik Thinking and Manhattan-2045.
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