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Monday, 13 April 2026

What Was She?

 

December 4, 2021

That something took place 300,000+ years ago that changed our evolution is undeniable. Except if you're a Christian, in their case, we're among what was created last during a 6 day period. However, for those of us not trapped in ignorance and darkness, we know that evolution has played an important part in our story. We understand that there were two lines of evolution, one on Tiamat, the other on Nibiru. Those lines were joined by Enki circa 300,000 years ago. Enki using an existing hominid, fused our differing DNA together. Enki as a scientist should have maintained exacting records of what he hoped to do, from idea, to end result. If he had, we'd expect that somewhere there would be a record, description, picture, of the hominid that we were fused from. There remains hundreds of thousands of clay tablets covered in the Sumerian Cuneiform writing that remain untranslated. We can hope that the answers we seek are there.

The Sumerian record answers many questions about the Bible and our creation, but those answers remain incomplete. In the course of our studies here, we have learned that an advanced alien species called the Annunaki came to Earth to mine PGMs (Platinum Group Metals) to save their home world, Nibiru, from environmental disaster. They arrived on Earth between 450,000 and 432,000 years ago. Their commitment to this effort was extensive. At the height of operations—before the closure of their Mars base—there were 600 Annunaki on Earth, successfully building, maintaining, and operating a series of mines in southeastern Africa, along with other critical infrastructure.

They maintained this level of effort for approximately 150,000 years. While that seems like a long time by our standards, with Nibiru’s 3,600-year orbit, it equates to just 41.7 years by their measure. Still, even by their reckoning, it was a significant period—comparable to a full working career here on Earth, from early adulthood to retirement.

What follows is, for me, both a criticism of El Shaddai’s leadership on Earth and King Anu’s leadership on Nibiru. To some extent, we can sympathize with them. After two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, most of us have felt frustrated and disillusioned, believing our provincial and federal leaders have mishandled the crisis—forgetting that these “leaders” too were fatigued. The same would have been true for Enlil and Anu, as they bore the immense pressure of trying to save their planet from extinction—a challenge far greater in scale.

This failure in leadership ultimately led to our creation. The Annunaki workers in South Africa went on strike. Enlil’s reaction was harsh and shortsighted—he wanted the leaders of the labour movement executed. Enki, by contrast, responded with far more intelligence and practicality. King Anu agreed with Enki, recognizing that Enlil’s response was excessive, and another solution needed to be found.

During those 150,000 years, the Annunaki would have taken note of Earth’s native bipedal, semi-intelligent hominids. The miners themselves inquired whether these beings could be trained as primitive workers. Enki enthusiastically declared that it could be done and that a suitable specimen

already existed.

But what hominid did they use? Curiously, this critical detail is not recorded anywhere. The Bible says we were made from dust or mud. The Quran, more accurately perhaps, states we were created from clots of blood. But whose blood?

The Annunaki’s account is vague. We are told that Enki’s sperm fertilized the egg of a hominid. The DNA in the egg was then modified using CRISPER-like technology, altering just 3% of the original DNA. This “updated” egg was implanted not back into the hominid, but into the womb of Enki’s sister, Ninkharsag—the "Lady of Life" and Earth’s original Mother Goddess. This procedure reportedly carried considerable risk to her. Once the initial experiment succeeded, the process was shared with 14 other Annunaki females, likely part of Ninkharsag’s nursing staff.

These original human/Annunaki hybrids were, like mules, sterile—unable to reproduce. More experimentation was needed before Enki succeeded in making us capable of independent reproduction.

Interestingly, while searching for the perfect primitive worker, Enki experimented with numerous variations—many of which became the basis for the creatures of Greek mythology. Greek myths are, in truth, modernized versions of Sumerian stories. The Greek pantheon and its divine dramas are literal retellings of Annunaki history. Understanding this makes Greek mythology less baffling—Zeus and King Anu, for example, are one and the same.

Fossils of Homo Erectus have been found across Asia, Europe, and Africa. This species travelled widely and was the longest-surviving hominid species. It is thought that Homo Erectus evolved from Homo Habilis about 2 million years ago. The oldest known fossils—found in China (2.12 million years ago) and South Africa (2.04 million years ago)—make it difficult to determine where it first evolved.

Homo Erectus had an average brain capacity of 1,000 cc, the largest of any hominid at the time. It had a flat face and human-like body proportions. Fossils are frequently associated with Acheulean* stone tools—primarily chunky hand axes—indicating increased wrist strength and dexterity. Homo Erectus is also believed to be the first hominid to use fire in a controlled manner.

(*Acheulean tools are named after Saint-Acheul, a suburb of Amiens, France, where they were first discovered.)

Numerous H. Erectus specimens have been found across Asia (Peking Man, Nanjing Man), Europe (Tautavel Man), Southeast Asia (Java Man), and Africa (referred to as Homo erg-aster). Many of these fossils are of similar ages, suggesting H. Erectus migrated vast distances and settled in diverse regions throughout its existence.

Homo Erectus is considered a possible ancestor of Homo Heidelbergensis, an archaic human first discovered in Germany, which in turn may have been the common ancestor of Homo Neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens.

Neanderthals were large-brained hunter-gatherers who evolved in Europe and Asia. They used fire, created clothing and art, and buried their dead in ritual ways. Though not our direct ancestors, they are our closest known relatives. Their fossils have been found in numerous locations across Europe and Asia. Neanderthals were slightly shorter than modern humans but had larger brains. Skilled toolmakers, they became specialized Ice Age hunters and survived for hundreds of thousands of years.

Scientists believe both Neanderthals and modern humans evolved from Homo Heidelbergensis, which lived around 800,000 years ago. After modern humans appeared in Africa, some migrated into Europe and interbred with Neanderthals. Today, people of European descent carry up to 4% Neanderthal DNA.

Neanderthal populations began to decline around 50,000 years ago. Evidence of inbreeding and disease exists in their later remains. The last known group died out approximately 35,000 years ago, leaving Homo sapiens as the sole surviving branch of millions of years of hominid evolution.

The oldest known fossil remains of Homo sapiens were found at Jebel Irhoud in Morocco and are around 315,000 years old. Other early fossils come from Ethiopia (dated at 196,000 and 160,000 years ago) and South Africa (259,000 years ago), indicating our species evolved in Africa long before these dates.

Genetic evidence suggests H. sapiens may have emerged over half a million years ago. The five individuals discovered at Jebel Irhoud looked remarkably like modern humans, with flat faces and familiar teeth and jaws—though with slightly larger proportions and elongated skulls.

After evolving in Africa, Homo sapiens began to roam. The oldest fossils outside of Africa, found in Greece, are dated to 210,000 years ago. Although several early migrations occurred, many of those early lineages eventually died out.



Saturday, 11 April 2026

Using Psychoactives

 

January 16, 2021


Scientists have, for the first time, identified the presence of a non-tobacco plant in ancient Maya drug containers.Researchers from Washington State University detected Mexican marigold (Tagetes lucida) in residues taken from 14 miniature Maya ceramic vessels. Originally buried more than 1,000 years ago on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, the vessels also contained chemical traces of two types of dried and cured tobacco: Nicotiana tabacum and N. rustica.

The research team, led by anthropology postdoctoral scholar Mario Zimmermann, believes the Mexican marigold was mixed with the tobacco to enhance the smoking experience. The discovery sheds light on ancient Maya drug use and provides a clearer understanding of their ceremonial and medicinal practices. Published in Scientific Reports, the study also opens the door to future investigations into both psychoactive and non-psychoactive plants that were smoked, chewed, or snuffed among the Maya and other pre-Columbian societies.

“While it has been established that tobacco was commonly used throughout the Americas before and after European contact, evidence of other plants used for medicinal or religious purposes has remained largely unexplored,” Zimmermann said. “The analysis methods developed in collaboration between the Department of Anthropology and the Institute of Biological Chemistry give us the ability to investigate drug use in the ancient world like never before.”

The work was made possible through NSF-funded research that led to a new metabolomics-based analysis method, capable of detecting thousands of plant compounds (metabolites) from residue collected from containers, pipes, bowls, and other archaeological artifacts.

These compounds can be used to identify which plants were consumed. Previously, identification of ancient plant residues relied on detecting a limited number of biomarkers, such as nicotine, anabasine, cotinine, and caffeine.

“The issue with this,” said David Gang, professor at WSU’s Institute of Biological Chemistry and co-author of the study, “is that while the presence of a biomarker like nicotine shows tobacco was smoked, it doesn’t tell you what else was consumed or stored in the artifact.”

“Our approach not only confirms the presence of the plant you’re interested in, but it also reveals what else was being used.”

Zimmermann helped unearth two of the ceremonial vessels used in the analysis during the spring of 2012. At the time, he was working on a dig directed by Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History on the outskirts of Mérida, where a contractor had uncovered signs of a Maya archaeological site while clearing land for a new housing development.

Zimmermann and a team of archaeologists used GPS equipment to divide the area into a checkerboard-like grid. They then hacked through dense jungle in search of small mounds and other telltale signs of ancient buildings, often associated with the remains of important individuals such as shamans.

“When you find something really interesting like an intact container, it gives you a sense of joy,” Zimmermann said. “Normally, you’re lucky if you find a jade bead. There are literally tons of pottery sherds, but complete vessels are rare and offer a lot of exciting research potential.”

The WSU research team is currently negotiating with several institutions in Mexico to gain access to even older containers from the region, which they hope to analyze for plant residues.

They are also working on a separate project examining organic residues preserved in the dental plaque of ancient human remains.

“We are expanding frontiers in archaeological science so that we can better investigate the deep-time relationships people have had with a wide range of psychoactive plants—plants that were, and continue to be, consumed by humans all over the world,” said Shannon Tushingham, professor of Anthropology at WSU and co-author of the study.

“There are many ingenious ways in which people manage, use, manipulate, and prepare native plants and plant mixtures. Archaeologists are only beginning to scratch the surface of how ancient these practices truly are.”



Saturday, 4 April 2026

Mars/Earth Comparison Table

 

October 16, 2021



Mars is only about half the diameter of Earth, but both planets have roughly the same amount of dry land surface area. This is because over two-thirds of Earth’s surface is covered by oceans, whereas Mars currently has no liquid water on its surface.

While Mars and Earth differ greatly in temperature, size, and atmosphere, their geologic processes are surprisingly similar. On Mars, we observe volcanoes, canyons, and impact basins that resemble those found on Earth.

Many physical land features on Earth also exist on Mars. However, some Martian landforms are far larger than their Earthly counterparts. The table below compares several conditions, specifications, and features of Mars and Earth:

Feature

Mars

Earth

Atmosphere (composition)

Carbon dioxide (95.32%)
Nitrogen (2.7%)
Argon (1.6%)
Oxygen (0.13%)
Water vapor (0.03%)
Nitric oxide (0.01%)

Nitrogen (77%)
Oxygen (21%)
Argon (1%)
Carbon dioxide (0.038%)

Atmosphere (pressure)

7.5 millibars (average)

1,013 millibars (at sea level)

Deepest Canyon

Valles Marineris
7 km (4.35 miles) deep
4,000 km (2,485 miles) long

Grand Canyon
1.8 km (1.1 miles) deep
400 km (248.5 miles) long

Distance from Sun (average)

227,936,637 km (142,633,260 miles)

149,597,891 km (92,955,820 miles)

Equatorial Radius

3,397 km (2,111 miles)

6,378 km (3,963 miles)

Gravity

0.375 that of Earth

1 g (2.66 times that of Mars)

Largest Volcano

Olympus Mons
26 km (16 miles) high
602 km (374 miles) in diameter

Mauna Loa (Hawaii)
6.3 miles high
121 km (75 miles) in diameter

Length of Day (rotation period)

24 hours, 37 minutes

Just under 24 hours

Length of Year (orbital period)

687 Earth days

365 days

Polar Caps

Carbon dioxide ice mixed with water ice

Permanently covered with water ice

Surface Temperature (average)

–81°F (–63°C)

57°F (14°C)

Tilt of Axis

25 degrees

23.45 degrees

Number of Satellites

2 (Phobos and Deimos)

1 (Moon)


Wednesday, 1 April 2026

Original Sin



 

October 28, 2021

One of the absurdities of the Christian tradition is that Eve had something to do with the Fall of Man; the term original sin apparently has to do with Eve's sexuality while in the Garden of Eden. However, this is church promoted nonsense, because the Book of Genesis 2:24 explains that Eve is the wife of Adam, and instructs that man "shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be as one flesh". Genesis further relates that all of their offspring were born after they had left the Garden of Eden.

If Eve did sin, it could only have been about her eating from the forbidden tree of knowledge, but too so did Adam. This incident is strange, why would God, who clearly had a personal one on one relationship with both Adam and Eve, tell them not to eat of the tree of knowledge, and then a little while later appearing as a serpent, tell them to?

The church tells us that the serpent is the devil, but he will not be created until the second century A.D., so there is definitely a continuity problem here. The identity of the serpent is really Enki, our creator, who was extremely keen on educating us. It was his brother Enlil El Shaddai, who warned against eating from the Tree of Knowledge. Here in the first people story of the bible, we get a hint of the conflict that exists in the Annage royal family. It is my personal opinion that Enlil was likely very happy that Adam's first wife Lilith, who was pure Annunaki, would not lay with him. See our article "Who She Really Was" Learn more

The unfortunate thing about this strange story of expulsion is, it sets women up as being temptresses, and after this, male dominance seeps into all of the following patriarchal scripture. For Eve's misbehavior with the tree and for influencing Adam against El Shaddai's will, god made it clear to her that from then on "they husband shall rule over thee". It is interesting that the mistranslated word serpent, actually NHSH in Hebrew actually means to decipher or to find out; a perfect word play to describe Enki, who was Mission Earth's lead scientist. As is the problem with all translations, can the translator convey the mood and subtlety that the speaker is using? Clearly, Enlil is angry with Enki when Enlil says "now they shall become as one of us".


 
Another odd thing about this story is, El Shaddai refers to the tree of life, referencing immortality. Ninkharsag switched off the part of our genes that control our aging. However, we know from our investigation in to MFKZT that it has a profound effect on our overall health. But too we know that Adam and Eve and the next several generations received the menstrual hormonal extract directly from the 14 original Annunaki birth mothers therefore they had no need of the additional benefit of the Shem - an - na, the Ben Ben stone. Gold.

The Ben Ben stone, the incredible exotic mysterious metal that is created in the final few seconds before a star goes nova after the star has burned its way through all the other periodic elements. The bible tells us that god said that all the silver and gold is his, this statement confused me as a child, what did He need it for? Trinkets and decorations? No, he had a much more practical and mysterious purpose for it, and they arrogantly created Adam and Eve to obtain it for them.

We were created to be slaves to them and, one of the most important reasons we were forbidden to eat of the tree of knowledge was, we were never to know that we were slaves. This may have been possible while our population was still small enough so that it was possible for the Annage to have one on one relationships with us, but as our population grew, they needed to up their


game and appear far more powerful and godlike, thus we are not being oppressed, but instead, we are only doing the bidding of the almighty and so we take pride and joy in our labor.

Still though, what is up with the gold, why is it so important to them? The bible does an extremely poor job of answering this and many more questions, to find those answers we must turn to sources that predate the bible and are the source material for the bible. Sumer, the first real civilization that popped into existence from 6,000 years ago, it records both ours and the Annage's history to 300,000 years B.C. and well beyond. That history shows us who Adam and Eve really were, and who Cain really was, as well as the Levites of Moses's time; not to mention Hiram Abif of Masonic lore.

Eve though not well represented as a Mother goddess of earth, her role representing both fertility and, duality cannot be dismissed. Her son Cain was a king and gold smith, a gold smith in his time knowing the secrets of MFKZT, how it transmutes from mineral to powder, how it has anti-gravity properties, how it can levitate both itself and anything placed upon it. This particular property giving the Levite priests of Moses's time their name. Hiram Abif too knew these things and is why he was murdered.

Eve, how do you envision her, in your mind's eye what does she look like? Unfortunately, there are no known provable images of her, though it is possible that she is anyone of the thousands of statues and figurines that have been found throughout the mid-east. Though these are usually attributed to Ninkharsag or, Inanna.

It may be possible that the original 14 Adams and Eves were dark skinned Neanderthals of who we have learned were capable of sophisticated speech, not just guttural sounds.

Ninkharsag, the Lady Of Life, she is the original mother goddess, without her skills as both a nurse, and clinical scientist, Enki could not have completed his work in creating us, the Adama the workman. Eve's story is tragic, she has been vilified by the church, her undoing coming from a man and his colleagues who lived 250,000 years after she did. Yes that would be Paul of Christ's time and the development of the Pauline church , her fate was sealed by Emperor Constantine's stamp of approval after 325 A.D when he approved the rewritten bible of that time, which has continued to be reinterpreted by differing factions of the splintered Christian church until the 21st century A.D.


 

Saturday, 28 March 2026

Eugenics: What a Child Does Not Understand

 November 26, 2021

This whole topic of eugenics — it’s big, and it’s ugly. As a society, we have lived with its warped, terribly bad science for the last 138 years. It has come to infect the planetary population as a whole. Francis Galton, who in 1883 coined the term eugenics — meaning “good living” — gave us what is arguably the worst translation of a term in human history. Good living, my ass. Eugenics has brought nothing but misery to untold millions.

In our articles “What If,” parts 1 and 2, we give a primary example of eugenics in practice: the Canadian Indian Act. Canada’s first Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald (January 11, 1815 – June 6, 1891), was born in Scotland and, in early Canadian politics, was known as “the sly fox.” He led our government with a firm and discerning hand, serving as Prime Minister from 1867 to 1873. It was the men — and women, too — of Macdonald’s generation who made eugenics what it came to be, taking the principles of the philosophy and making them real.

Lost in the Barrens. As a youth I must have read this book 10 or more times. Mowat has a library of both adult, and children's books, most of which I've read. He's written extensively about the north, and its peoples. His writings more than any other writer, provided the desire for me to go north, and see the beauty of both its people, and the land

For me, discovering the effects of eugenics began in grade five with the events surrounding our article “Someone Is Going to Be Offended.” As I have related elsewhere, that year — and for the following sixty months — was a period of extraordinary isolation. To help combat those feelings of loneliness, I lost myself in books. My interests were broad. I read many of the classics — Moby Dick, Catcher in the Rye, a lot of Poe’s work.

An author whose work I particularly enjoyed was a Canadian, by the name of Farley Mowat. I especially loved his children’s novel Lost in the Barrens,  a story about two teenagers — one white, the other a Chipewyan Native American — who became separated from a hunting party and had to rely on each other for survival as the brutal winter in the Canadian sub-Arctic set in. It’s truly a story of bravery and resilience in the face of long odds. In addition, it is a beautiful example of what cooperation and respect for each other’s culture should be.

As is the case for most of us, when we find an author we like, we tend to read all their work. This was definitely the case with Mr. Mowat and me. Most of his library was very adult-oriented, dealing with the Inuit of Canada’s North and the horrors of their lives. The reasons the Canadian government treated the people the way it did were, of course, way above the head of the twelve-year-old I was — I only knew that they were suffering and needed help.

Reading Mowat’s material had a profound effect on me. I was both incredibly impressed and inspired by the bravery and toughness shown by the explorers of our northern territories, and I developed great sorrow and respect for the peoples of the North. Because of this, I tried to read anything I could get my hands on regarding the North.

For my 13th birthday, my father bought me a copy of Across the Sub-Arctic of Canada: A Journey of 3,200 Miles by Canoe and Snowshoe Through the Barren Lands (1898) by James Williams Tyrrell. The book fascinated me 

Most of Mowat's work is about the Inuit, and being a child when I'd read them, I hadn't been able to connect the dots. That the conditions that he described, would be universal throughout the north. Tyrell's work then, was an eye opener for me, an unpleasant one. In the years after I'd read it, I wondered if it might be possible to actually travel their route, and what it might cost. Maybe if I'd been more serious about it, I might have tried harder to find those answers, but right then, it seemed tht I couldn't find anyone to help. I held on to this dream/hope until well after my marriage ended, and anytime that I'd brought it up with my wife, the whore, she'd scoffed at it.

both because it was filled with information about the actual routes they took and the difficulties they endured. Since I was intensely interested in geology — and the whole effort they were engaged in was on behalf of the Canadian Geological Survey — it matched my interests perfectly. Rare 10/10 score, Dad! As I have said elsewhere, sometimes he understood me very well indeed.

So, what does this have to do with eugenics, you may be asking?

The Tyrrell brothers were educated men. They would have willingly partaken in the “latest” scientific and societal “changes for the better.” When we look at the date of Tyrrell’s journey — 1898 — it would have been right during the upward curve of eugenics becoming intensely popular. Throughout the book, it is liberally peppered with racist slurs — not only toward the voyageurs (the licensed canoe workers transporting furs and trade goods across the interior) and the laborers hauling samples, but also toward the Indigenous populations they encountered over those 3,200 miles.

I was raised to believe that “Indians” were untrustworthy, savage low-lives. The savagery I understood — they had been fighting for their homes and families. The “low-life” part, I began to question as I came to appreciate their socio-economic situation. For far too many years, I could not understand why they simply didn’t assimilate into Canadian-Western culture. I was very wrong in thinking that way, and I offer here a very public apology for that.

We have much to learn from our Indigenous peoples. They are one avenue back to our reintegration with Source.

  


Thursday, 26 March 2026

Pangaea Theory

 

October 16, 2021

To understand the formation of continents, let's begin with a few geographical terms:

  • Continent: The landmasses that make up nearly 30% of Earth’s surface. The seven continents are Asia, Australia, Africa, Europe, North America, South America, and Antarctica.

  • Continental Drift: The movement of Earth's crust over the planet’s liquid core.

  • Meteorology: The study of Earth’s atmosphere. People involved in weather analysis and forecasting are called meteorologists.

  • Lithosphere: Earth has three main layers: the Crust (uppermost), the Mantle, and the Core (which is liquid in part). The Crust and the Upper Mantle together form the Lithosphere.


Pangaea: A Definition

Now that we’ve covered the terms, here’s the definition:

Pangaea was a supercontinent that existed around 250 million years ago, when all the continental lithospheres on Earth were joined into a single landmass.About 100 million years later, Pangaea began to break apart—eventually forming the seven (not-so-small!) continents we recognize today.

The Man Behind the Theory

A German meteorologist named Alfred Wegener proposed the Pangaea Theory in 1912. He hypothesized that continents move over time—a groundbreaking idea that introduced the concepts of continental drift and supercontinents.



Wegener offered several key pieces of evidence:

  1. Fossil Evidence: Fossils of Lystrosaurus were found in India, Africa, and Antarctica. Since it’s unlikely these species swam across oceans, they must have once lived on the same landmass.

  2. Matching Fossil Records: Fossils of mosasaurs were found on both the east coast of South America and the west coast of Africa, suggesting the two continents were once connected.

  3. Geological Similarities:

    • Identical radioactive minerals have been found in Germany and Canada.

These minerals also show similar half-life decay patterns, suggesting a shared geological history.
    • Mountain structures in Western Europe and the northeastern United States are strikingly similar, indicating the regions were once part of a single landmass.

Together, these clues support Wegener’s theory.


Climate Change After Pangaea

The breakup of Pangaea drastically altered the Earth's climate. As the continents separated, they changed the flow of ocean currents and atmospheric winds. This shift had global consequences. The scientific explanation for these changes lies in Continental Drift—Wegener’s theory that continents move over time, affecting climate, geology, and ecosystems. For example, Wegener studied plant fossils from the frigid Arctic region of Svalbard, Norway. He found fossils of tropical plants not adapted to cold climates. Since such plants couldn’t migrate, Wegener concluded that Svalbard must have had a much warmer climate in the past.

As Pangaea split apart, new ocean basins and seaways formed, disrupting global temperature regulation. When North and South America connected, they blocked equatorial currents from flowing between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. This diverted more warm currents toward Europe and strengthened the Gulf Stream. Warmer waters at high latitudes caused more evaporation, increasing atmospheric moisture and precipitation. One consequence was the development of Greenland’s ice cap, which contributed to global cooling.

More evidence of global cooling comes from the separation of Australia and Antarctica and the formation of the Southern (Antarctic) Ocean. The new ocean allowed for a circumpolar current—a powerful flow of cold water around Antarctica. This current cut off warm, tropical air and water from reaching the continent, turning Antarctica into the icy landmass it is today.


From Continental Drift to Plate Tectonics

Although many of Wegener’s conclusions were later confirmed, science has since evolved. His theory of Continental Drift was eventually replaced by the more comprehensive theory of plate tectonics, which better explains how Earth's crust moves and reshapes over time.

Final Thought

Modern Homo sapiens are a relatively recent species—only about 100,000 to 200,000 years old. Pangaea, by contrast, existed over 335 million years ago. So, there were definitely no humans—or even primates—on Pangaea!


Saturday, 21 March 2026

There Is Hope

 

November 7, 2021

Footage shows the 18-year-old at Festival Park in Govan chanting:
"You can shove your climate crisis up your ae, you can shove your climate crisis up your ae!"

The young activist has quickly acquainted herself with the Glaswegian sense of humour as she joins one of the many protests calling out political inaction during the COP26 climate summit in the city. As you can probably tell, Thunberg isn't exactly convinced that politicians are doing enough to protect the planet.

Addressing the crowds gathered across the River Clyde from the COP26 venue, she declared:
"Change is not going to come from inside there — that is not leadership. This is leadership. We say no more blah blah blah, no more exploitation of people and nature and the planet.
No more exploitation. No more blah blah blah. No more whatever the f
k they are doing inside there."**

In September, Thunberg mocked Boris Johnson by quoting parts of his speeches on climate change and adding, “blah, blah, blah.”

The Prime Minister himself referenced her remarks during his speech at the COP26 opening session earlier that day (Monday, November 1). He said:
"I was there in Paris six years ago when we agreed to net zero and to try to restrain the rise in the temperature of the planet to 1.5°C. And all those promises will be nothing but blah blah blah — to coin a phrase — and the anger and impatience of the world will be uncontainable unless we make this COP26 in Glasgow the moment when we get real about climate change."

Thunberg arrived in Glasgow the previous day (Sunday, October 31) by train and is expected to take part in two large protests through the city later in the week.

Speaking at Festival Park, she added: "This COP26 is so far just like the previous COPs — and they have led us nowhere.Inside COP, they are just politicians and people in power pretending to take our future seriously. Pretending to take the present seriously — the present of people already being affected today by the climate crisis." 

The above comes from LAD Bible, a British news source I trust.

As much as I admire Greta Thunberg and her fiery, angry spirit — and I do believe that she and every following generation has a right to be angry — I also consider her to be something of a twit. She seems to be very strong in judgment, and very weak in offering solutions. Sure, she is still young, and like most young people, she’s highly reactive.

Speaking as a concerned Canadian citizen, I am appalled at my government’s track record on climate change. I, too, am deeply concerned that we are approaching the point of no return at break-neck speed — and may have already passed it. Back in the late 1990s, I was trucking through South Dakota and had stopped on an exit ramp to relieve myself. Another truck pulled up behind me to do the same. The other driver and I chatted briefly about the thick layer of bugs on our windshields — it was awful, bugs on top of bugs. He commented that he’d never seen them so bad, and neither had I. At that time, I was starting to become aware of climate change, and beginning to wonder about the phenomenon of the sixth extinction, though I hadn’t yet connected the two.

Now, some 25 years later, I can't help but notice the die-back of insect life I warned that driver about. In Canada, during the summer months from about 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., driving becomes extremely annoying due to the swarms of bugs coating your windshield. But over the last decade, there’s been a notable drop in insect populations. What disturbs me most is the impact on pollinators — particularly bees.

The group of chemicals known as neonicotinoids is devastating to bees, as are many herbicides, fungicides, and pesticides. The obvious solution is to stop using them. However, simply halting their use won’t fix the problem. There is hope, though. In Britain, researchers at the University of York have developed a variety of switch-grass that can detoxify residues of the military explosive RDX. 


This innovation has the potential to be further engineered to neutralize other toxic substances.

Recently, the UN published a report stating that planting trees will not save us. This hit me like a gut punch. The problem is twofold:

  1. Newly planted forests cannot absorb the excess CO₂ already in the atmosphere, and

  2. The trees themselves are dying due to climate change.Normally, winter freezes protect trees from rot. But as winters warm, trees are no longer freezing properly and are starting to rot from the inside out during the coldest months.

    Although forests are not the "lungs of the planet" as once believed, our oceans are — and they, too, are in serious decline. The overall picture is grim, as Miss Thunberg rightly points out, yet there is still more reason for hope than despair.

    We know the planet’s two ice caps are vital to regulating global temperature because they serve two functions:

    1. They reflect sunlight and heat back into space, and

    2. Sea ice expels salt when it freezes, which creates a churning motion that helps circulate ocean currents and redistribute heat from the equator.

These ocean currents are slowing. Whether the consequences resemble those in the film, The Day After Tomorrow or unfold more gradually remains to be seen. CO² capture and sequestration — combined with some planetary engineering — may buy us enough time to redesign our economies. All three strategies are achievable with today’s technology.

In April 2021, a researcher at Purdue University developed the whitest shade of white ever created — it reflects 95.5% of all light. Originally designed as a passive cooling material, what if we repurposed it to simulate artificial ice caps? What if every balcony, rooftop, and car roof in every city, town, and village worldwide were painted with it? What if tens of thousands of square kilometers of breathable canvas, coated in this paint were laid across the Arctic tundra? Instant ice caps.

Unsurprisingly, the oil industry has tainted the idea of carbon capture. They’re using the technology to trap their emissions and store carbon underground — often in the very wells they’ve been drilling, many of which are neither sealed, nor maintained properly. This approach feels cynical and flawed. On a more hopeful note, a Swedish company, Climeworks AG, operating in Iceland, has developed a method to extract CO² directly from the air, and store it in the island’s porous volcanic basalt. This type of rock is ideal for permanent storage. Though they currently manage only 4,000 tons annually, they are scaling up rapidly.

In my view, Greta Thunberg and today's youth have every right to be angry. But rather than mourning what may have been taken from them, they should fight like hell for what remains. They must channel their passion into advocating for the technologies and solutions that can turn hope into reality.