Stop global warming now
March 03rd, 2025
When retired microbiologist W. “Tom” Thomson Martin (at right) hears someone responding to the growing environmental climate catastrophe with the notion “There is nothing we can do,” his response is a resounding “I disagree!”
In Cultural Transformations (Agio US$9.99), Martin sets out his argument that each of us “has the potential to change history.”
“Our evolution as a species starts with our individual behavioural change,” he says. “This is followed by social change in our community. Thus, we evolve and the world changes.”
Martin is under no illusion that this will be easy, citing stories of journalists, fearing for their lives who now regularly wear bullet proof vests (“speaking truth to power can be dangerous,” he notes). Nonetheless, he says, “we humans need to STOP many of our behaviours and we need to STOP them now.” He lays out over 30 cultural shifts we can make to prevent global warming.
From publicity: This book contains both a warning and an appeal. The warning is that the climate crisis we humans face is of a magnitude that has never before been experienced in the history of the human species. Thomson Martin’s appeal is simple. The appeal is to STOP! To stop and think more deeply than ever before about what Homo sapiens is capable of helping to create when we collaborate with other members of our species and with Nature.
To survive as a species we must first choose to survive. That choice has not yet been made by Homo sapiens. Cultural transformations will be required to make the necessary changes to ensure our species’ survival. These changes will include our stories, our beliefs, our economics, our politics, our behaviours, and our relationships with Nature and each other.
Our politics must change from human-only-focused democracy to biocracy, encompassing the rights of all of Nature. A new economic system is critical to the survival of humanity. The new economic system will reject greed-based capitalism and instead focus on the authentic needs of people and show respect for nature and the Earth.
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