Prokyrotic life decarbonized the atmosphere and hydrosphere of Earth over a period of about two billion years, establishing conditions that facilitated the emergence of more complex life forms and supported their continued evolutionary development. The life forms that emerged generated the metabolic physiological processes and the systemic bio infrastructures that enabled the holding of carbon extracted from the atmosphere and hydrosphere within states of equilibria within the biosphere and then to the burial of carbon held within the biosphere deep within the geo-sphere. For billions of years this carbon was held in equilibrium by the carbon cycle that calibrated its movements to achieve synchronicity with tectonic dynamics driven by convection currents within Earths mantle.



Then, within a few thousand years the species of life known as Homo sapiens within which the evolutionary process had successfully generated high levels of autonomy began to liberate first the carbon held within the biosphere and then the carbon held within the geo-sphere and set it free within the atmosphere and hydrosphere. This process of “re carbonization” of the atmosphere and hydrosphere was made possible by the “de carbonization” of the biosphere and geo-sphere. The species Homo sapiens has now become aware of some of the implications of the continuing liberation of carbon from the biosphere and geo sphere into the atmosphere and hydrosphere and has begun to realize that the need to support the technologies on which its global civilization stands as well as the need to support its global population of seven billion individuals demands that it continue this process of liberating carbon from the biosphere and geo sphere in order to generate the energy required. The species appears to be locked within a cycle that assures its extinction unless a way out can be found.



We know that the first known de carbonization was accompanied or perhaps even generated by an evolutionary movement that led to the emergence of aerobic life forms based on new symbiotic relationships between prokyrotes that generated eukyrotic structures that became the basis of complex life forms through which autonomy – the capacity of an organism to perceive itself as distinct from and hence intervene in the processes by which it is generated and sustained – has emerged within the species Homo sapiens. While the re carbonization of the atmosphere and hydrosphere promises the extinction of Homo sapiens and possibly other life forms as well and even a regressive return to a dominance of prokyrotic life forms, de carbonization may lead to another evolutionary acceleration.



De carbonization demands the directed use of accessible resources. The directed use of such resources requires a clear objective towards which such use may be directed. This directed use implies new systems of governance and a fundamental shift in perspective. Endless consumption will have to be replaced by objective driven resource deployment and overall resource conservation. This will require new ways to live, new lives and livelihoods for each individual Homo sapien and the emergence of a new type of world for all.



I wish Jeffrey Sachs and the growing global network of individuals who are able to perceive pathways to a meaningful, credible, resilient and sustainable global civilization, ever success in their efforts to bring about Civilizational Transformation and Conscious Evolution.

