Planet of Life 7: Evolutions Next Step

  1. Man is the only species that has the ability to alter global ecology. Early man lived in hunter gatherer societies. By the time he reached Siberia there was an ice age in progress. The world’s earliest needle is made from deer horn and is 20,000 years old. Geologist, Dr. Paul Martin of the Arizona State Museum studies artifacts from after the ice age and believes that early man wiped out many of North America’s large mammals by hunting.
  2. Dr. Andrew Moore of Yale University studies an ancient site in Syria called Abururara. These ruins are 10,000 years old. About 15,000 years ago the climate became warmer and man settled down and became agrarian. In North America glaciers melted and the run off formed a large lake. This eventually emptied into the Atlantic Ocean causing a shift in temperature producing a mini-ice age. This lasted @ 1,000 years causing man to develop a dependency upon other sources of food. Cereal grains became the staple for man.
  3. Dr. Yoshiori Yasuda of the Research Center for International Studies in Japan studies pollen grains to see what species were being used. Dr. George Wilcox of the Institute of Eastern Pre History studies how that wheat became domesticated. The Ebla Palace Library found. It held @15,000 clay tablets written in cuneiform. They are records of trade and culture. There is still and ancient mill in Syria that is 1,000 years old and it still functions.
  4. As machines developed the industrial revolution began and the course of human history was changed forever. Today the human population is over 5 plus billion. Dr. Dennis Meadows of the University of New Hampshire indicates that in @ 2030 AD to 2050 AD there will be a major food shortage of food supply. Population growth will override the food supply.
  5. Space is to be the next frontier. Dr. Christopher McKay of NASA tells of how that humanity is planing to terraform the planet Mars for human habitation. The Polar Ice Caps are to be melted by orbiting mirrors.CO2 is to be released from industrial plants as a green house gas to trap heat. Water vapor will bring about rains. It is estimated that it will take @ 100 years to form oceans and @ 100,000 years to make the planet fit for life as we know it.
  6. Biosphere Two was set up in the Arizona desert as an experiment in 1991. 3,800 plant and animal species were placed in the facility along with eight human scientist volunteers. There were to have stayed in this self sufficient environment for two years. The experiment failed because the scientists had not accounted for the fact that concrete absorbs CO2 and that the soil bacteria used oxygen in large quantities.