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The Satanic Formula
Self-interest becomes a very strong force when your life is threatened.
Collectively, we enforce laws that protect the lives of all members of a
community, individually we act with defensive force to protect ones own
life. But what happens when life itself is threatened? All of a sudden
both the individual and society become disinterested observers. A lot of
information is generated on how to perceive and understand the problem.
Things like Sustainability, Biodiversity and Conservation have become
the discussion topics around the signs that signal the threat to life,
but there is no effort at maintaining the activity and sustainability of
life, in fact much of modern human endeavor seems to be directed at
extinguishing it!
Today
we rapidly remove the conditions necessary for the continued existence
of genetic, ecological and cultural information, as these are seen to be
unimportant to the society of modern man. These losses have now reached
critical proportions, the actions leading to such losses being
vindicated by the human value system called “Consumerist, growth
oriented society”. Using a theory called “Consumer sovereignty” where “whatever
contributes to the satisfaction of the individual is decreed good and
whatever detracts from the individual satisfaction is decreed bad”; the
salesmen of the world set about the activity of creating desire. So
that, more and more resources were required to satisfy the individual
preference, The individual preference being constantly redefined by the
pecuniary actions of these same salesmen. The product of such actions
has been to place an ever-increasing demand on all resources, be it
renewable or non-renewable. As the values and ideals of the
“Consumerist, growth oriented society extend to include more and more of
humanity, there is a proportionate reduction in the ability of life to
express itself on this planet.
Can
we, modern humanity, be really accused of stifling the force of life?
The answer is yes and lies in our wholehearted accepatance of the
Satanic Formula as the basis of human development without understanding
or appreciating what this acceptance means. The Satanic formula is
derived from the generalized formula for extracting energy from fossil
fuel, which reads.
CH4 + O2 -> CO2 + H2O + e
This states that burning Hydrocarbons (fossil Fuels) using Oxygen gives us Carbon Dioxide, water and energy. It
is this process that the entire industrial revolution was based upon it
is this process that propels all the transport and industry of the
‘modern’ era.
Hydrocarbons
are made from the fossilization of organic compounds that once existed
in the biosphere, it is made from living organisms that died and was
buried underground where they are compressed into the rocks and reside
for time periods measured in millions of years. This ‘fossil material
has no contact with the living world.
Over
geologic time vast quantities of carbon sequestered by living forms
became fossilized in this manner and removed from the living world. With
the fossil carbon there also resides fossil hydrogen. And it is the
burning of these fossil components using biologically generated oxygen
that is currently pushing the threat to life ever closer. The
reason why becomes clear when the generalized formula for Hydrocarbon
combustion is looked at, in terms of its combustion products, armed with
this knowledge, the threat to life becomes clearer. Thus the Satanic Formula is stated as :
fCH4 + bO2 -> nCO2 + nH2O + e
Simply,
it sates that burning fossil Hydrogen and fossil Carbon (Oil, Gas,
Coal) using biologically created Oxygen, creates ‘new’ Carbon Dioxide
and ‘new’ water vapor that never existed in the atmosphere before. These ‘new’ gaseous inputs into the atmosphere accelerate the current trends of rampant global
warming and climate change. But there is another feature about this
formula that really makes it sinister and that is the fact the global
Oxygen concentration is falling and the only thing that keeps the global
concentration levels up is photosynthesis by leaves and plankton.
The
expansion of fossil based industry and farming at the expense of the
forests and seas, not only destabilizes the atmosphere and accelerates
global warming but it also removes the very basis for the expression of
life by burning the biologically created Oxygen without paying for its
replacement.
Normally,
the Oxygen volume is about 21.9% globally, this level of concentration
is critical to all of humanity and negative health effects begin to be
felt if it drops below 19% when thinking and attention becomes impaired,
as the levels drop to around 16 % there is reduced coordination,
decreased ability for strenuous work, at 14% Poor judgment, faulty
coordination, abnormal fatigue upon exertion, emotional upset cardiac
stress. 10-12% Very poor judgment and coordination, impaired respiration
heart damage, nausea, fainting, death.
The
current global concentration is about 21.9%, however this figure often
dips to 19% over impacted areas and is down to 12%-17%. In
cities with many trees such as in Alabama U.S.A it is 21.9% -19%. In
cities with very low greenery and heavy urbanization such as Mexico
City, it is 17% – 14%. As many will point out there is still a huge
stock of Oxygen in the atmosphere. But the trends are disturbing. There
has been a discernable drop in the Oxygen concentration following the
Industrial revolution, this trend accelerating as the internal
combustion engine competes with our lungs to access the global Oxygen
stock.