We are all already sitting on Noah’s ark, but we haven’t read the User’s Manual yet…

Question from the Internet:

“Hypothetically there is an imminent extinction event due. There is an ark to take people to safety. Some are chosen for their qualifications. Some by lottery. If you are chosen do you stay or do give your seat to another? Why?”

It is an interesting question and I am sorry for not playing along.

I will explain why.

The imminent extinction event threatening us is not hypothetical, we are on the threshold of very realistic self-extermination, which event can unfold from seemingly multiple triggers (truly life-threatening plagues wiping us out, global socioeconomic collapse, climate change triggered extreme weather events, flooding, water and food shortage, pollution and general human activities depleting food and water supplies, predictable wars (when leaders have no other “solutions” and many other possibilities), starting from multiple, various locations at any given moment.

There is no specific ark that can take us to safety, we are already sitting on, living inside that ark, which is planet Earth, this is our only global ark, we do not have anything else. And even if we could colonize other planets with impossible speed, with not yet existing technology, since we are the problem with our inherently selfish, egocentric, individualistic, and egocentric nature, we would cause the same crisis, destruction on other planets, leading to the same result (It is more likely that we would mutually kill each other already in the process of colonization).

Finally, from Nature’s point of view Humanity is a single, living “superorganism”, individually we are but individual cells of the same body. Thus we “escape” — meaning escaping our own inherent nature — and survive either together as one, or none of us will survive.

We are living in the era of “one for all, all for one” in a very sharp, realistic, tangible manner, which is forced on us, obligated by Nature’s system and its strict, unforgiving laws that sustain the general balance and homeostasis life depends on.

Unless we understand this and start acting, behaving, living accordingly, none of us will survive this transition from a shattered, self-serving, self-justifying, narcissistic, subjective, and individual human system towards the inevitable, selfless, altruistic, mutually responsible, and mutually complementing Nature-like, “truly Human” existence.