“Life is of no use, no greater purpose”
#Spiritualiteit “Life is of no use, no higher purpose,” says astronaut André Kuipers. Looking down on the Earth, floating between the other planets, Kuipers suddenly felt what was going on. “You're just part of a bigger picture. I'm made of atoms, and when I'm gone, those balls are going to do something else. That we live is a chemical, electrical coincidence.”
Life on Earth had a” Brilliant “must be. Instead, it has become a “Terrible Accident”. Things went wrong with the arrival of Homo Sapiens. “History began when people invented Gods, and will end when people become Gods, says Yuval Noah Harari
Harari is a member of the World Economic Forum and says that the people need new religious textbooks; traditional religions offer no real alternative to liberalism. Their writings have nothing to say about genetic engineering, and most priests and rabbis, according to him, do not understand the latest breakthroughs in biology and computer science: “Religious textbooks are more of a weapon in the hands of a few powerful leaders of the faith; they use it to create fear and maintain their position of authority. We will create our scripts in the future, once we have created a non-biological replacement for our human, we will become divine”.
Are We (Homo Sapiens) Murderers?
According to anthropologist Raymond Dart, our ancestors distinguished themselves from other living great apes because they were real killers — flesh-eating beings who “forcibly seized their living resources, beat them to death, tore their broken bodies to pieces, cut off their limbs one by one, and quenched their predatory thirst with the warm blood of the victims and consumed living, floundering flesh full of desire.” The text may now come across as a cheap horror novel, but after the horrible slaughter of World War II, Dart's article (in 1953) about his theory of the “murdering monkey” clearly struck a sensitive chord.
The wars with the arrival of Homo Sapiens
For example, does climate warming lead to more war?
“The disruptive impact of the increasingly rapidly changing climate is going to lead to major shortages worldwide,” says general bd Tom Middendorp. According to him, it makes parts of the world uninhabitable. “This can then lead to all kinds of conflicts, disasters and threats.” As far as Ukraine is concerned, Middendorp believes that climate change also plays a part in the background here. “Ukraine and parts of Russia are a kind of granary of the world,” he explains. Globally, grain production is under pressure due to changing temperatures and precipitation. “The Ukrainian territory helps Russia to secure food security and export position in this area.”
It is a long-standing geographical question: does the natural environment influence conflict?
The Horn of Africa is near despair . What do you get when you add up extreme weather, locust infestations and conflicts? In the Horn of Africa, unfortunately, people know the answer all too well: hunger. In countries such as Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia, there is a huge shortage of food. Harvests have been failing since autumn 2020, and due to conflicts in the area, there are hardly any solutions. Now that grain cannot be imported from Russia and Ukraine, the situation is becoming even more dire. For more than 14 million people, a meal has become a luxury.
The conflicts in Darfur have often been linked to climate change: higher temperatures, less precipitation. According to German social psychologist Harald Welzer, they constitute 'the first climate war'. And it won't be the last: “a look at Sudan is a look into the future,” he states in his book The Climate Wars (2008). It is not without reason that the subtitle is Why there is fighting in the 21st century. He considers it “certain” that “climate changes are a cause for violence and civil war”. More people, more drought, less harvest, less food, more hunger — it's a recipe for misery. The link between climate change and war is not indirect, but direct.
