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Welcome to the Anthropocene

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Maybe the Climate meeting in Paris is the start point for a change. Most world leaders seem to accept what is going on because to the high CO2 level in the atmosphere. Right now the temperature is about +2 degrees C in Stockholm. When I was a kid almost every winter gave us opportunities to ski, build snowmen and so on. Now its seldom so... What most of us don't understand is the total impact of the human activities on the planet. The Nobel price winner Paul Crutzen popularized Antrophocene as a term for the geological era we now live in. "Anthropo" means mankind: We have now influenced the The Earth so much, that the whole biosphere has changed. To be mindful means to see things as they are, and to accept them - and know it's time to see the very dangerous scenario that can be our future. But Crutzen also wants us to see the great achievement that we have made; democracy, United Nations and so on.... He was also one of the researchers that found the

Who are we?

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Maybe Brian Swimme has an answer; "We are composed of the sacrifice of a star" "We are a later phase of a transformational process that requires enormous sacrifice and yet gives birth to the possibilities of a new complexity to emerge. We are the human phase of that... we participate in that in concerns of the mystery  of what we can give birth to. " So we are involved in the process of a self organizing organism - the Earth.... Its as the Earth is curios and want to know more about itself..... So we are more small parts of the Earth, more than individuals. And the Earth is a small and beautiful part of a solar system...    and so on Life wants to know                                                                                             Life wants to see So life invented eyes about 40 times.... It is as the Earth really wanted to see..... So whats next in the evolution of life?