Climatically as well as economically we enter now the new Bronze Age.
The world over scientists and simple people alike agree that the biggest pollution problem of all is our over-use of fossil fuels.
Yet while we continue to take the fossil fuels created over 400 million years for granted and exploiting them fully in less than a century, the release of greenhouse gases continues to escalate, same as the use. The dependence on them even when we are broke is far greater than when we had the money to invest in alternatives…
A junkie mentality if there ever was one.
Still the evidence is conclusive. Greenhouse gases and their runaway effects, threaten the very life of all species, plant forms, oceans and waterways as well as human life.
It is true that nearly 50% of people claim to be concerned about climate change. However, dig a little deeper and one finds that people have a remarkable tendency to define this concern in ways that keep it as far away as possible. They describe the climate change as a global issue and not one they can do anything about. Certainly not something to tackle in their lifetime.
Thus people absolve themselves of responsibility for solving it.
But the most disturbing issue of all, is that 60% of people believe that scientific experts still question and disagree if humans are contributing to climate change.
Fifty per cent of all people believe climate change is “largely due to natural causes”, while another fifty per cent don’t see climate change at all…
How is it possible that so many people are still blind to 40 years of research and the consensus of every major scientific institution in the world? Surely we are now long past the point at which the evidence became overwhelming…
Well maybe not.
China is investing in huge amounts of Copper. Yes the highly useful strategic mineral. And the one whose processing causes major pollution. Same as they were doing five millennia ago. More than five thousand years ago the people thought to invest in Copper as a killer alloy that ushered in the bronze age. What will the new dependance on copper usher into us?
They don’t just invest, they stockpile the stuff like it’s going out of fashion…
Why?
Everyone has a pet theory. The Americans are afraid the Chinese are abandoning T-bills. The financial analysts are afraid the copper merchants and strategic mineral advisors like Mr Rich are fainting the Chinese moves. Many conspiracy theorists also chime in…
But really it is just hoping for a useful mineral that is presently greatly undervalued. N’ est pas?
So let’s herald the new Bronze Standard that in turn ushers in the new Bronze Age.
My favourite PaleoFuture theory so far is the new Bronze Age is upon us, courtesy of the world’s favourite party people. Chinese Com-party I mean and toy makers to you and me, but best generation satellite and space ship makers to their people.
Now they will be the money makers to the world too.
It is a Chinese led age and much like their earliest bronze and copper currency being the first kind, ruled their world, we now have the new Bronze standard money poised to come into view.
Perhaps the new currency of the world will be stable and made of coppered bronze, but minted in China and traded the world over. It will bring back some real validity into the coinage and into the monetary supply of people the world over, and soothe the fears against paper money unbacked by anything but promises and nice portrait photos.
The vision of the Mandarins is five thousand years long. How long is the view of the West?
The accuracy of the long term plan of Chinese empire building includes a strong global currency. The rest of the story, you can intuit.
The early bronze age could have been called the copper age but it was really an age of growth and fairly warm temperatures and a great interest in Metallurgy.
It is believed that China and Mesopotamia were the leaders of the bronze age.
What you will do today for the environment?
Remember, with knowledge comes the duty to act now.
PS: The new rise in power of China will also allow them to deal with their environment better than before and they are taking steps to protect their water supply from the Himalay ice caps. Nothing negative without a silver lining.
PS: The rise of environmental awareness in China makes the country a valuable partner in the future of the earth. The local p[eople decided to solve the local pollution problems and this is where it all starts. The popular myth in the West that a new Chinese coal powered plant for electricity is being built every week is just that. They have a strict method of licencing and designing the new coal plants but also with the latest scrubs and locally made method of emission controls. It’s a start.
PS: The Bronze Age is the period in society when the most advanced metallurgy included smelting copper and tin from naturally-occurring outcroppings of copper and tin ores, creating a bronze alloy by melting those metals together, and casting them into bronze artifacts. There was also the domestication of the horse.
As reguard to metal working, the naturally-occurring ores typically included arsenic as a common impurity. Copper/tin ores are rare, as reflected in the fact that there were no tin bronzes in western Asia before 3000 BC. The Bronze Age is regarded as the second part of a three-age system for prehistoric societies, though there are some cultures that have extensive written records during their Bronze Age. In this system, in some areas of the world the Bronze Age followed the Neolithic age. On the other hand, in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, the Neolithic age is directly followed by the Iron Age. In some parts of the world, a Copper Age follows the Neolithic Age and precedes the Bronze Age.
