The truth about this blog post is that it has traveled billions of miles in space and billions of years to get here, wherever here really is. This post is a relic on earth, a substantiation of biological evolution, and a re-formation of the sun's energy (that embodies many re-formations - light, energy, plants, food, and animals including myself). And from any other planet's perspective, human beings are aliens. So this blog post contains a message from an alien that has travelled millions of years through space. The funny thing about fantasy and sci-fi films is that they almost always seem to neglect these truths (although 2001: A Space Odyssey may come close, at least figuratively speaking, and maybe the Russian original Solaris).
The trip that this post has taken to become materialized also contains in it the more specific evolutions in human technologies - electricity, internet, radio waves, wi-fi, satellite (as the case may be).
To return to the theme of nature - which the above is really all a part of - how will these technologies interplay with the future of humanity? In light of the previous post, it is important to first note that technological development will not likely supply us with some sort of "silver bullet" solution. Technology, so far, has delivered a rather significant net negative impact on earth's ecosystems - and there's really no guarantee that more technological development will form into a net positive impact.
If technology cannot provide a solution to a nature in peril, then what could? Many have argued that a decreases in consumption, rather than changes to production, could be the most crucial changes. I would add that changes in perspective, consciousness and understanding may be even more central in this process. For nature to better reflect on nature - therein lies the answer.
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