Motivation

Face it, we are the Snakehead Fish of our planet. Humans have learned to dominate our once natural predators and have thus expanded.

In the 19th and 20th centuries, human "success" lead to a new status, an "invasive species". We've established a presence in every geographic region on the planet's surface. Today 6.5 billion of us consume and lay waste wherever we spawn.

We weren't always invasive. The human animal existed in balance with earth's other life forms for hundreds of thousands of years. Then about ten thousand years ago things changed. Man made major advances in math and science. Predators as large as the lion and as small as the germ became less effective in slowing our growth. Cultures that had survived in balance with the earth for as long as a million years were classified as godless savages. Many of these "savages" were either converted or exterminated. Any way of life that achieved harmony with the earth was classified as backward.

Today we are self aware, and we are self determining. We are capable of great things but our most likely accomplishment will be our self destruction.

Fortunately, we are faced with limits to clean water and energy, otherwise we might quickly overrun and over consume the planet's life forms and resources.

But,

What if we were to suddenly learn how access the limitless supply of water just twelve miles deep?

What we learned to tap limitless supplies of energy via generators placed in great thermal energy layers twenty-five miles deep?

Would unfettered access to resources accelerate human advancement or destruction?

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I am motivated by a belief that we can learn as a species.

I think we can learn to live in a sustainable way.

I think we can progress toward something other than our own annihilation.