There are only 1% of the species that have ever lived on the planet around today. From the dinosaurs to the dodo and whatever else that has become extinct with just the 1% today. We as in humans are barely a fraction of that demise with Mother Nature being probably the biggest and most sadistic bitch ever. Darwin actually became depressed understanding that evolution is based on a mountain of blood and when you think about it is is very depressing.

 

We today do our best, we are animal lovers, adore cats and dogs to protecting wild life in whatever shape and form it exists to the best of our ability. The tiny minority that are willing to kill a rhino for its horn to a tiger for its fur is against a huge majority who will always try and protect the natural world and the environment around that as we see it as a huge part of what the planet should represent. There are very few who do not enjoy the natural world wether that is on a small or large scale. But, and there is a but here.

 

The biggest and most fundamental question here is where is the balance? One of the biggest and unstoppable forces is evolution in the ability to evolve is the only mechanism to protect survival and that will always be the case. We cannot protect everything, we cannot stop progress. We are the only species able to do it exactly the way we feel and the only species ever born to have control over that. Compassion is in our nature which supports the protection here but the balance between protection and healthy evolution is the equilibrium that we need to understand and allow to happen naturally. Where that equilibrium exists between the two is the important question here.

 

From a cultural perspective and let’s say indigenous races here as these also fall into the above equation. I believe it was Bill Bryson who stated that Madadasga due to its huge mountain range and poor developed and evolved geographic was home to different indigenous races in the thousands who could never travel or meet each other creating so many different languages and cultures. That figure would be impossible to maintain as they evolve of which they must at some stage to progress to meet and evolution would have to state and dictate that the figure would have to drop to remove many of those indigenous species or blend with others. It could drop and you could lose 99% of the different indigenous cultures to end up with just a few. That would again be totally natural and expected. You cannot protect every indigenous species just by calling them an indigenous specie. It has to balance with evolution.

 

My final point is this, all the above is an important demonstration of who we are and what we stand for and important for us to ensure the planet remains a place we want to live. But that does not mean that we stop our evolution. We have a moral obligation to our future and our survival to continue to explore, innovate, build, design and push the boundaries of what we are capable of doing to ensure that very survival. From the scientific in its discoveries to the business and financial world supporting that.

 

For instance, building a base on the moon or a colony on Mars has nothing whatsoever to do with the end game there. Quantum mechanics from the CERN hydron Collider to the ITER fission reactor. To the computer and energy industry. It is about demonstrating what we are capable of doing, what we are capable of achieving, and the fact the geography might be off planet everything that supports that to the highest of technical jobs and sectors to the inventions needed that may end up being solutions to many issues we face the key. The business and the financial world working around that and supporting that. Again this is about finding that equilibrium and this absolutely can and has to work alongside the natural world. It will be our only mechanism and our evolution in our very survival but it will and has to work along side ensuring that the planet also is a place stated above. 

 

It can and has to work together and it is the only answer.

 

Yet, that said, it does not. The world as it is today always seems to be a binary option. You either stand for one side or the other, fit into that box, represent that box with all its self interest and blindly go down that road regardless. Surely it is common sense to understand that both have to exist, they have to find an equilibrium and they ultimately have to become symbiotic to each other and not perceived or operate parasitic to each other.  

 

Innovation will ultimately be our only chance of survival if we manage to break the divide and conquer mentality around that and the natural world be be our quality of life and pleasure outside of that. The two existing in total harmony.