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FUTURE PERFECT?
An Icarian Adventure?
With over 600 films in a career spanning three decades and three green oscars under his belt, including the first by an asian, champion nature film maker mike pandey has an ear to the ground on ‘earth matters’. he believes immortality of man is not exactly good news for an already over-burdened earth...
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 Evolution is a process that we all require. Considering we are still a new specie and have a long way to go, would immortality hurt our evolutionary process?
Immortality is a dream that mankind has been hunting for – searching for the elixir of life, the magic potion that would make him immortal. Recent findings may bring great joy for many, but it also raises many questions.
Evolution is a process of absorbing information, experiences and procreating with another similarly empowered species to create a blend of two different life forces to form a more well-adapted, resilient and intelligent species.
Immortality would mean that you could live forever, but will your body age? Can the process of ageing be stopped? Immortality and youth is the pertinent area in question here rather than immortality ravaged by decay and erosion of time. Imagine a bag of bones shuffling across the streets and villages… all victims of Alzheimer’s.
The question that looms large, and will confront us in future, is whether our planet would be able to bear the burden of an immortal specie, a specie that has already overburdened earth with its avarice.
Our planet’s population lies at 6.78 billion and according to the statistics available, our presence on the planet is not sustainable. We are consuming more than the earth can replenish and we are dipping into our savings – our natural resources – that in fact belong to our future. Food security is at a critical stage, the earth’s capacity to produce and feed our growing population is limited.
The world always held two years worth of food reserves in storage, to meet any emergency. As the planet is unable to meet the demands of our growing population, every year, we are dipping into our food reserves that are now at 90 days, a perilously low figure. If any country like India, China or Russia experiences famine for a year, it would hit the belly of our planets’ food supply and would most probably result in mass exodus, starvation, civil unrest, segregation over social class, and eventually anarchy.
Mankind today is a product of centuries of evolution. Evolution is nature’s dynamic design – you have to evolve. Evolution is a process of growth; every living organism on the planet is controlled, whereby each generation adapts, becomes more intelligent, aware and versatile. I cite not only physical evolution but also spiritual evolution.
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 Immortality would not only result in over a billion people being old, it would also, without doubt, result in over-crowding the planet and turn us into the most dangerous and largest specie of parasites or viruses on the planet.
The journey of life designed by the Supreme Intelligence has a function, and is meticulously designed. Nanotechnology, which would give us immortality, would disrupt and imbalance nature’s delicately designed system. The resultant over-population would soon lead our specie to eat up or consume our limited natural resources.
So what does this mean for us as a specie? A rational mind would point to food shortage and starvation.
Immortality is for a fully self-sustainable planet, one that we do not live in. The human body is designed to grow,
decay and be discarded by the immortal soul – an immortal soul that looks to move on to a newer body, which acts as a vessel for the immortal soul through the journey of life. Something like the metamorphosis of larvae into butterflies. Therefore immortality would accomplish nothing but ravaging of the soul.
If you look at the law of nature, movement is life and stagnation is bereavement. In the wake of the immortality reality, we’d find ourselves in a morbid society because man in his arrogance will actually begin to think he is the creator of earth’s destiny and the master of its being. Wars would be waged by some, just to wipe out races due to animosity or greed.
Though immortality could have positives, it would be great to have visionary leaders and scientists around. This thought could be very comforting. Having Carl Sagan, Albert Einstein, Mahatma Gandhi, Plato, Immanuel Kant and Charles Darwin around would be nothing but advantageous to humanity. But then, what about the likes of Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and
Genghis Khan…? Would that be advantageous to humanity or would it put humanity in a state of peril?
While longevity is a great notion, we need to evolve such that we go though our own journey of metamorphosis in a manner to equip us not to be immortal but to be a highly ‘evolved’ specie.
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Page for the page: Rahul Chaudhary
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