Ci'-vi-lized [adj] subject to government, reduced to order, reclaimed from savagery
Many religions teach that, before civilization, man did not possess a
fully conscious mind capable of reflection, and had no 'free will'.
Only humans can be described as civilized.
Civilized man lives in a world of staggering scarcity.
Fe'-ral [adj] wild, untamed, savage, not civilized
Feral creatures live in a world of astonishing abundance.
Yet it is the same world in which civilized man lives, at least physically.
Choice' [n] a variety of alternatives or options
In winter, birds have three choices:
To travel to warmer climates in the company of their community (migration).
To sleep in a cozy, secure, underground chamber (hibernation).
To eat heartily and snuggle up with others in their community to stay warm and comfortable.
Civilized man has only two 'choices':
Work long and hard in the service of others.
Freeze and starve homeless.
Civilized man does not have the choice of living without the constant, gnawing fear of not having enough.
Pri'-son [n] a place of forcible (i.e. without choice) confinement, restraint or captivity
A'-li-en [n] an organism that occurs in a region in which it is not native (i.e. not naturally at home)
Man is native to the tropics.
Only when he became alienated did he become civilized.
Sca'-ven-ger [n] an organism that feeds on carrion, or wild nuts and berries, a cleaner of refuse
Man, like the raven, was originally a scavenger.
He did not have the strength, speed or natural tools (claws and teeth) for catching and killing live prey.
Scavengers are an honourable and critical component of every ecosystem on Earth.
Scavengers are generally the most intelligent creatures in each branch of the animal kingdom.
This intelligence is evolutionary-- effective scavenging requires significant creativity and social cooperation.
Sus-tain'-a-ble [adj] capable of being continued indefinitely, without depletion or diminution
Man is currently using Earth's resources at 120% of the Earth's and man's combined ability to regenerate them.
If everyone on Earth today consumed resources at the rate of the
average North American, man would be using Earth's resources at 800% of
the Earth's and man's combined ability to regenerate them.
The human population is still doubling every 50 years. So is per-person resource consumption.
Eighty-five percent of the arable land on Earth has been seriously
degraded (i.e. its carrying capacity significantly reduced) by human
activity.
We have consumed about 500 billion of the 2,000 billion barrels of
hydrocarbons known or theoretically possible to find and extract (much
of it enormously difficult and costly to find and extract). We are
currently using 30 billion barrels per year, which is conservatively
expected to grow to 45 billion barrels per year by 2020. At this rate,
we will have used up all the hydrocarbons on the planet, which took
billions of years to be created, by the latter part of this century.
Can'-cer [n]
a malignant pathological (i.e. destructive and unsustainable) growth
that expands locally by invasion, and systemically by metastasis (i.e.
transmitting its cells to other parts of the organism) until it kills
the entire host organism.
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