A Quiet Corner in a Chaotic World – Taishi Koto Pt 1 song by L’Eclair from the Polymood album

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This video collage contrasts the potential of a quiet space in our immediate surroundings with the chaos that is building in the wider world. Viewers may notice artifice in virtual and resemblant vignettes. If AI has a role to play in this latest stage of civilization it is to enable social engineering on a global scale at a time of unfolding mayhem and panic.

The smooth Jazz song Taishi-Koto, Pt. 1 is by L’Eclair from Geneva Switzerland from their Polymood album: https://leclairband.bandcamp.com/album/polymood Their music is available on Bandcamp, iTunes and probably elsewhere.

The YouTube and book references in order of appearance are:

• Dr Guy McPherson’s Nature Bats Last YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxKBcy_28_g
• McKinsey & Company’s 2022 Report, The net-zero transition, What it would cost, what it could bring: https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/sustainability/our-insights/the-net-zero-transition-what-it-would-cost-what-it-could-bring
• Peter Carter, Climate Educator, in his October 2024 summary of “Climate Catastrophe Indicators”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk9vulmEbqc
• Bill Rees referred to this article: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchforks-are-coming-for-us-plutocrats-108014/
• The full interview of Bill Rees by Rachel Donald on her Planet Critical channel is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID-P1_AwczM
• Climate Code Red, the case for emergency action by David Spratt & Philip Sutton: https://www.amazon.com/Climate-Code-Red-Emergency-Action-ebook/dp/B004C05HIY?ref_=ast_author_mpb
• The NASA CERES Solar Energy Imbalance from Arctic News on Blogspot: https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/
• James Hansen, Climate Scientist’s 2012 TED Talk on Solar Energy Imbalance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWInyaMWBY8
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Here is the acoustic content in text form for easier translation. Some sources are listed to aid research:
This was just the beginning.
(Text) Rapid Intensification
What is already quite a tangled messs.
What I see, you know, is the tail wagging the dog. It’s us bending over more and more to accomodate.
(Text) Nature Bats Last
(Guy McPherson, Climate Educator) Like pulling a rabbit out of a hat.
Uh huh.
(Text) Carbon dioxide, Methane, Nitrous oxide (Source: McKinsey EMIT database)
There’s a very strong incentive now to examine critically and constructively this entaglement and …
(Voice of Peter Carter, Climate Educator) There is no indication of stopping this trend to global climate catastrophe.
(Text) Together, we will transform the world. Join our mission. invest.aptera.us
(Voice of Dr. Bill Rees, Ecological Economist) He says, look, we can’t keep… operating this way. There will be revolution.
(Juan Cortez, online video game character) Don’t worry. Your secret is safe with me.
(Text) Foreign Affairs, Has the United States Gone Rogue? A Conversation With Michael Beckley
“America is increasingly a rogue superpower,” Beckley has written.
(Text) From The Director Of INDEPENDENCE DAY… THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW… 2012
Help is not coming! You just get out of there!
...Washington…
(Dr. William [Bill] Rees, Economic Ecologist) The pitchforks are coming.
Who owns humanity’s food? Humanity.
(Text) Climate Code Red by David Spratt and Philip Sutton
(Text) NASA CERES Earth’s Energy Imbalance; 0.4 W/m2 in 2004, 1.4 W/m2 in 2024, The Club of Rome
(Voice of James Hansen 2012 TED Talk) This imbalance, if we want to stabilize climate, means that we must reduce CO2.
We ran out of time.
(Carl Jung, Pioneer Psychologist, On Death) ...living on, looking forward to the Great Adventure that is ahead.