Chaperones of Gaia .

Chaperones of Gaia .
Andre Willers
5 Mar 2011

"With a little help from our friends ." Beatles

Synopsis:
Humans have beaten previous climate changes by a combination of migration (or it's modern equivalent , trade) , friendship , alliances and chaperones .Threats were turned into opportunities .

Discussion :

Friendship and alliances are built into humans , known as politics .

Chaperones can be defined as altruistic , or remotely enlightened self-interested entities .
Chaperones are altruistic , but not charities . They expect a return , but can wait for tens or hundreds or thousands or millions of years if necessary .

Biochemical chaperones (like heat-shock adaptation systems) are included here .

Humans like to have a shorter timespan , like 10 – 100 years .

Challenges at present or in near future :

1.Overpopulation , surfacing as mass rebellion
See http://andreswhy.blogspot.com "Optimized censorship: , "SuicideTroops cause state instability" Feb 2011 .
2.Climate enforced migrations .
Major at risk areas : (SciAm Jan 2011 p50 " Casualties of climate change")
2.1 Mozambique
2.2 Mekong delta
2.3 Central America , especially Mexico .

It is in the long-range self-interest of the present chaperones (USA , Canada , Russia , UK , EU , China , India , NGO's , private persons ) to convert this challenge into an opportunity .

Use human skills in migration management
(friendship , alliances , diplomacy , Chaperones , education ) to convert a mouth into a pair of hands .

If they do not , can they expect aid when misfortune visits them ?

Gaia can see humans either as an industrious , benign skin-ecology , or as a deletrious rash .

When Gaia itches , Gaia scratches .

Andre

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