Month of  “JUSTICE”

 (January 10-, February 6,2008)

science of spirituality

     Justice can be perceived also as distinct from , and more important than, benevolence , charity, mercy, generosity or compassion . Although all these attributes are valuable , but it is not right to place them over justice. The origin of justice needs to be explored from the “science of spirituality” – a supreme form of energy that ignites for sustenance of both biotic and abiotic world.

justness

From this highest form of energy  (AEC) , justice trickles down to individual , family, community, society, nation, inter-nation, global and universal entities. It can also be perceived as divine command. Divinity is usually linked to our faith of God. But if we apply reason and science to divinity , it is transformed to Absolute Energy

of Consciousness which determine universalistic justice providing approach and solution to the members of human family to live a life enriched with “justness” leading to peace.

Humans

 In general parlance , theories of distributive and retributive justice to great extent contribute to peace. The distributive justice deals with the type and Nature goods to be distributed  (is it to be wealth, power, respect and / or some combination of these things ?) - between what entities are they distributed ? Humans , sentient beings , the members of single human society / nations  need to be provided with proper justice  with equal distribution (equal , meritocratic according to social status and or according to need ?)

             punishment

            The theories of retributive justice are concerned with punishment for wrong doing  and also provide answer to  (a) why punish (b) who should be punished (c) what punishment should be awarded ?. Although punishment is a bad treatment, it is necessary to maximize the overall good  in the long term in mainly three ways   

(a) deterrence – punishment might lead people to make different choices to maximize welfare (b) rehabilitation – to make bad people to better ones (c) security – limiting the opportunity of bad people by capital punishment /imprisonment etc to cause harm to others. In an imperfect world, institutions of justice are required to instantiate ideals of justice ; if not with full perfection but nearing perfection.

         rehabilitation

 bonded and sustained by various sources of energy from which different kinds of forces are emerging. The solar system is an extremely crucial part of the  universe. Planet earth is unique as it supports life . The “wholeness” characteristic of the universe will be transformed to “nothingness” , if anyone member of the “woven entity” especially that of the solar system is detached from the web. It is acknowledged today that the earth is dying, as a result there is inevitable human suffering and threat of species extinction and transformation of universe to nothingness. Climate variability and climate change expedite the dying process of the earth.

solar system

In order to enable the humanity to control and regulate  climate change in a positive manner , it may be useful to know the climate throughout the history. In the past 120 million years , the Cretaceous period (120-65 millions years ago) was  5-7degree Celsius warmer than the present and carbon dioxide concentrations were much higher than today. During the Tertiory period to the Quaternary period (2.5 millions years ago) cooling took place and climate was influenced by the location and configuration of continents,

carbon dioxide

           glacial periods

presence or absence of ice sheets, changes to the earth’s orbit that affected radiation received from the sun   and high greenhouse gas concentration. Past about one million year was characterized by a series of changes from ice age (glacial periods) to interglacial period. Other variations in earth’s lithosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere took place during last forty thousand  years to twenty thousand years.

All these coincide with variations in earth’s orbit, that affect the amount of distribution of solar radiation reaching the earth. Variation of earth’s orbit is not influenced by the role played by lithosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere but also by inexplainable natural changes of constituents of universe especially the negative human interventions.

earth’s orbit

universe.

This implies that the humans must develop their intelligence to think and act holistically considering all the  natural functioning of the parts of the  earth and the universe, simultaneously ensuring that their activities /interventions  not only decrease the harmful level of concentration of greenhouse gases , but regulate and limit the earth’s /universe’s  natural destructive forces through initiation of proactive earth-universe friendly actions. Only with such holistic approach, we can save the earth from dying and regulate the climate change to our advantage, simultaneously increasing the life span of the earth/universe.

Since 19th century, greenhouse gas problem has been accelerated . Side by side the humans are trying to develop their knowledge and intelligence to counter the destructive impact by  deliberating ideas in summits like Kyoto, Bali and other macro and micro level interactions . But unfortunately the recommendations of such summits and interactions are not translated into action at the field  level.

greenhouse gas

      Till December16,  2007 Bali climate deal was facing rough weather as US voicing “serious concerns” over its provisions and complaining that it did not do enough to commit countries like India and China to big cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. However ultimately a “road map” was agreed  tentatively in Bali which implies that a new climate treaty must be negotiated by end of 2009 to replace Kyoto treaty.

Bali climate

 road map

The voices of the developing countries were considered  and incorporated in the recommendations of Bali summit. The new agreement will mean (a) a new climate treaty must be negotiated by 2009to replace the Kyoto treaty (b) the treaty, to come into force in 2012, also sets of a global agreement  to stop tropical deforestation . (c) instead of requiring the developed nations to cut emissions by 24 to 40 percent by 2020, the road map now says countries recognize that deep cuts in global emission will be required.

Let us wait and see how the final recommendations of Bali summit are translated into action by different countries to minimize adverse impact of climate change. There must be meeting of the minds between developed and developing countries with respect to mainly two key points (a) making available of technologies by the developed countries to developing countries (b) reducing the emission rate in developed countries and permitting the emission rate of developing countries to a level without compromising their growth of economy for prosperity with peace.

                 Technologies

holistic approach

     I only urge the scientific community, professionals and world citizens to extend and expand their mind power to a “holistic approach” to not only cut emission rate but to produce  a conducive  global climate by initiating proactive measures for positive change to the earth’s orbit, to solar radiation, to the positions of the continents , to restrain from innovating and applying creative destruction weapons like nuclear etc,

accepting peace as objective with a scientific base, convergence of “science of matter”  with “science of spirituality” etc which only can ultimately minimize the concentration of greenhouse gases. I term such approach as “Biosphere Peace Movement”(BPM) which when properly articulated  will not only  produce a healthy climate  but will also contribute to effective functioning of different parts of the earth/universe in a peaceful manner.

Biosphere Peace

wholeness

“wholeness” of its relationship with other parts of the universe (e) understanding slowing down process of  movement of earth on its axis decreasing number of days in a year (370 millions years ago, a year was 400 days where as today it is only 365 days) and taking proactive measures to determine the most appropriate rate of earth movement on its axis to determine desirable level of solar radiation on earth.(f) the role of moon  and its effects on earth and humanity

(g) the gravitational strings which hold together galaxies consisting billions of stars and solar system  should be strengthen  by eliminating  negative human action like unhealthy competition over resources, marginalization of the majority world, global militarization, violence culture, and extreme utilitarianism etc.(h)understanding “auto-changes” of Nature and balancing it with human intervention (i) discovering more and more renewable sources of energy for production of goods and services for human consumption and mobility.

 Nature

Transport Systems

.(j)imposing restriction on limit of growth of cities which contribute to a great extent for increased emission for brining about equilibrium between built space and green space. One of the ways is to reduce the number of vehicular modes of transport like automobiles and personalized cars by developing alternative pollution free modes of Mass Transport Systems (k) change of mind set from technoholic to bioholic and climatoholic not only to cut down emission rate but to create a peaceful global environment. 

   It is of urgent need to accept that only cut in emission rate will not create a livable climate unless some of the measures advocated above are understood with reasons and are applied at the field level. In order deliberate on all such issues, “Biosphere Peace Movement” (BPM) should be started immediately by the humanity not only to adapt to positive climate changes but for long term sustainability. The sustainable peaceful path way must originate from Peace and then progress to achieve prosperity(PPP) and not VPP (violence, progress and prosperity)  which has become today’s global culture

Biosphere Peace Movement”

3.    Global news and views

  Human evolution speeding up, says studies

•   Human evolution is rapidly accelerated.

•  The rapid evolution has resulted in a much faster pace of evolution compared to previous six million years, since the Homo sapiens migrated out of Africa to other continents.

•   The pace of change has increase 100 fold in modern times compared to our distant past, since the Ice Age, 10,000 years back.

pace of evolution

 DNA

•  The process of natural selection has sped up, which is based on analysis of data from an international genomics projects.

• Human migration into European and Asian environments created selective pressures favouring less skin pigmentation, adaption to cold weather and dietary changes.

•  Genetic variations or SNPs(Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms) evolving over time as evident from study  of DNA from 270 individuals in four ethnically different population.

•          Human races are evolving away from each other, as a result we are getting less alike, not merging into a single and mixed humanity. This is happening because there has not been flow of genes between the region since homo sapiens dispersed from Africa to other regions 40 thousand years ago.

homo sapiens