Dinosaurs. Spaceships. Nature. Pollution. Humanity.

---“The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn’t have a space program.” - Larry Niven

---“It’s so incredibly beautiful now in almost retrospect. Humans haven’t been hurting earth as much as we’ve been unconsciously learning how to save her. We’ve hurt her along the way. And we are still hurting her as we struggle to learn. But she knew we had to start somewhere—almost like a parent who knows their child is going to make mistakes and hurt both themselves and their mother as they begin to take their first feeble steps with their new found intelligence.

Nature seems to have always known this—and counted the price she would have to pay. We didn’t know this, but she seems to have known this. What a crazy plan if this is the plan? What a fascinating plot twist in the story of the universe? Humans saving nature. Who would have ever saw this coming? Now we are beginning to see the outlines of a plan. She seems to have put everything into motion. Our intelligence appears to be her ultimate defense mechanism to protect herself. What a crazy design. Paradoxical. Redemptive. Transcendent. It’s just so incredibly beautiful.” - Jed Anderson, EnviroAI

NASA’s launch next month…

---“Nature knew that our first steps to evolve technology to save her would hurt her. She knew we had to start somewhere. She knew this even though we didn’t know this. We are not quite through this phase yet, but almost.” - Jed Anderson

I’ve written extensively over the last several years on the epiphany I had that the evolution of human intelligence could in fact be designed as earth’s ultimate defense mechanism … that nature designed us in part to save her … that we are her ultimate survival mechanism (see example email below).

NASA next month will launch the “DART Mission” to crash a spacecraft into an asteroid. This will be NASA’s first test of its ‘planetary defense system’. It will be the first time in history that a celestial body moving through the heavens will be altered by intelligent beings (to our knowledge).

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Protecting the Fate of Nature …

Human beings.

---“Our intelligence is nature’s hope. Humans appear to be nature’s ultimate defense mechanism.”- Jed Anderson, EnviroAI

Meteors hit earth. It’s never a question of if. It’s always a question of when. Nothing to fear. But on average, a collision with a 5 km object happens once every 20 million years. The last impact was 66 million years ago. That meteor knocked out ¾ of earth’s plant and animal species.

Humans have been hard on earth … but meteors have been much harder. And a meteor 60 miles wide knocks out the whole earth.

f If you are nature … which would you prefer?

Option #1: Humans hurting me as they evolve and develop technology that might save me from a meteor that will destroy 75% of me.

Option #2: No human technology. Just let me get hit by the meteor.

… If I’m nature …I prefer Option #1. Minimize the learning pain, but I like Option #1.

Email from earlier this year.

By 2050 …

human technology will evolve to the point where we are not only protecting nature from humans, but protecting nature from nature.

---“Humans are not the only forces in the world that can harm nature.”

As ironic as it might sound, the evolution of humans and human technology will likely prove to be the reason nature survives for as long as she will. In other words, without humans showing up on earth and beginning with our very crude and harmful technology to the earth, nature might not have survived for as long as she will in the first place. Paradoxical. Redemptive. Transcendent. Humans evolving to save nature. That’s a story-line that only God could write.

Now humans are heading into …

The Environmental Renaissance

Humans are moving from a focus on environmental protection to environmental enhancement