A COSMIC CONUNDRUM
This astonishing book follows our ascendancy from just another hominin on the open African savannah to the alpha hegemon on Earth today endangering its entire future. Along the way, humans methodically outwitted their competition with phenomenal efficiency and indifference, to emerge in the modern 21st century as the linchpin of a major mass extinction of countless other lifeforms cohabiting their planet with them. The shredding of our fragile ecosphere by massive proliferation and monopolistic overconsumption of Earth's precious resources by this single species, along with the inexorable combustion of deadly fossil fuels to acquire the energy needed to sustain their lavish lifestyle, is threatening to drive H. sapiens itself into extinction within the next 300 years.
From their speciation as nomadic hunters and gatherers onto settlement as farmers and ranchers and then into extraterrestrial space, this narrative follows that incredible journey and takes the reader through the great Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions and other epiphanies for this new species, to our modern postindustrial world of 2022 and beyond. In engrossing detail, this completely true story deconstructs the evolution of human civilization, culture, governance, politics, and religion. It explores the reproductive strategy of H. sapiens and scrutinizes the templates of matrimony and patriarchy lately invented by humans as mechanisms to achieve unprecedented population growth and empirical dominance of their home planet. H. sapiens is now the paramount ruler of that planet.
In truly evocative detail this shocking narrative recounts the existential dilemma facing humans at the moment, caused by their insatiable fossil fuel addiction, accelerating global climate change, toxification of their living space, and the anthropogenic mass extinction of other lifeforms on this planet. It discusses possible mitigating measures to avoid this apocalyptic future before it becomes too late.
