In biology we learn that over time no two species can share the exact same niche. An evolutionary system is a creator and filler of niches. We now have two evolutionary systems, a biological evolution syatem and a cultural evolutionary system. Can two evolutionary systems occupy the same environment indefinitely? Probably not.

Does this mean the end of nature? Biological evolution has been doing its thing for a few billion years. What will happen to the cultural evolution system in just a million years? What is happening to it now?

15,000 years ago, the land that I sit on was covered with a thick sheet of ice and there was no life here. That's the blink of an eye in geological terms. Life came back in stages. The old growth forests that were here when the settlers arrived had only been around for a few thousand years. It's all subject to change.

Oxygen on this planet is there as a result of photosynthesis. It is a very reactive element and if not for photosynthesis it would combine with other elements. Oxygen is a poison for the most basic life forms on this planet. The simplest bacteria die when exposed to it. It's introduction into our atmosphere can be thought of as the first large scale pollution.

Photosynthesis though brought new types of life to the planet that could never have existed before. The very reactiveness that made oxygen a poison also made it a good energy source. The old life either died out or was pushed to the far corners of the planet, like the subsea trenches where sulfur is used as the energy source instead of oxygen.

The change that cultural evolution has brought to our world is part of a process. The transformation our world as a result the expansion of culture is as natural as the introduction of oxygen. And there is the real possibility that the end result will be even more wonderful.

The problem with today's thinkers is there lack of understanding of the scale in which we operate. The cultural transformation is only a few thousand years old.

Part of the key to understanding is to stop thinking of ourselves as a single species among millions of other species. We need to recognize that we are the carriers of an entirely new type of life altogether, a type of life that is capable of matching and exceeding the diversity and complexity of all the species that that are present on our planet. In a million years that the new system that is emerging will have completely transformed our planet and probably our solar system.

Ok. Got to go. This is shit I've been thinking since the eighties and I'm probably just sounding wierd.