Our Creator Makes a Surprise Visit..
after a 50,000 year absence. And she ain't happy!
SOS #177 -- J. Morris Hicks -- (9-27-22)
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A few weeks ago, Glen, Sailesh Rao and I were all on the same Zoom panel that was focusing on how we can slow climate change and prevent the extinction of humanity.
We each had five minutes to make our cases. Glen chose to read a short play that he had written about our creator returning to Earth for a check-in visit -- after a 50,000 year absence.
Since that Zoom discussion, Dr. Rao and I have been collaborating with Glen as he finalized this simple, yet powerful, tale. Hopefully, it will help jolt a few hundred million people into action.
THE CREATOR CHECKS IN ON PLANET EARTH
By Glen Merzer
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Introduction. Let’s imagine what would happen if the Creator came back to visit Earth and had five minutes to figure out what we’re doing wrong.
Let’s say she met with the top statistician representative of the UN, someone who knows everything we’re doing here on Earth. Here’s how that dialogue might go, with the creator asking many questions.
CREATOR: Well, you know I haven’t checked in on the Earth for 50,000 years. I was always very proud of the beautiful blue-green Earth and also very proud of you human beings. Way back in the beginning, you were already developing big brains and I predicted great things from you. But I understand there’s been a problem and you’ve been overheating the Earth with greenhouse gases?
UN REP: Yeah, we have more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere every year. We’re approaching unsustainable levels. We have more deadly storms and fires and heat. Pretty soon we won’t be able to breathe.
CREATOR: I remember that I created six trillion trees that drink carbon dioxide, so what seems to be the problem?
UN REP: Well, we don’t have six trillion trees anymore; we just have three trillion.
CREATOR: You mean to say that you lost three trillion trees? How did you do that? Is that because of this coal industry that I have heard about?
UN REP: Well, actually the coal industry hasn’t cost us that many trees. Sometimes we dig up a mountain. It doesn’t look very nice and we lose some trees, but not much. So, our tree loss is not because of the coal industry.
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CREATOR: Well, is it because of the oil industry? Is that what’s causing all that tree loss?
UN REP: No, the oil industry doesn’t cost us that many trees. Sometimes we have oil spills. We had a terrible spill in the Gulf of Mexico about twelve years ago with many millions of barrels of oil pouring into the water.
CREATOR: It comes out in barrels?
UN REP: No, but that’s how we like to think of it.
CREATOR: Well, that must’ve been very bad for the fish. I remember that I created a whole lot of fish.
UN REP: No, actually, it was good for the fish. When we had the big oil spill, a lot of the fish came back.
CREATOR: That’s odd. I remember that when I created fish, they didn’t drink oil. Why did you wind up with more fish when you spilled oil into the gulf?
UN REP: You see, when the oil spill happened, we humans stopped fishing, so that brought back the fish. The fish may not like oil, but they like oil a lot better than they like us.
CREATOR: Wait a minute. Hold on here! I remember that I created you to live in the forests. I created you as land animals--cousins to the apes--chimps and gorillas. Do chimps and gorillas eat fish?
UN REP: No, of course not.
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CREATOR: So why do you people eat fish?
UN REP: Well, it’s part of our culture.
CREATOR: Culture? I don’t remember creating culture.
UN REP: You didn’t. We did.
CREATOR: What’s the purpose of culture?
UN REP: The purpose of culture is that when we do things that are wrong, we can still be proud of them.
CREATOR: What kind of things do people do because of culture that you’re so proud of?
UN REP: Oh, cultures have given us slavery, racism, sexism, bullfighting, cockfighting, fishing, and raising animals to kill them. As well as some nice, cute things like Irish folk dancing.
CREATOR: So, because of your culture, you’ve been eating fish? What has this done to your oceans?
UN REP: Oh, we’ve destroyed all the oceans because we eat fish.
CREATOR: All the oceans? That’s about 70% of the earth!
UN REP: Give or take. They’re getting bigger now because of global warming.
CREATOR: How much of your food do you get from fish?
UN REP: About 3% of our food.
CREATOR: So, you’ve destroyed all of the oceans to get just 3% of your food? How many fish do you kill every year?
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UN REP: Oh, trillions of them. We kill a lot more than we can eat, because that’s how nets work.
The nets also kill dolphins and whales, which aren’t technically fish. And we kill and eat lobsters and crabs, which also aren’t fish. Anything in the ocean is fair game. We feed a lot of the fish to cows. Cows eat more fish than we do.
CREATOR: I don’t remember creating cows.
UN REP: Right, you created oxen but we kind of fattened them up and softened them up and turned them into cows to make them taste better.
CREATOR: So how many cows do you have now? Do you have hundreds of these cows?
UN REP: We now have 1.5 billion cows. Eating them is part of our culture.
CREATOR: 1.5 billion? So how much of the Earth’s land do cows take up?
UN REP: We’ve turned over about 37% of the Earth’s land to the cows and then another 6% we use to grow grain to feed to the cows.
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CREATOR: So 43% of the beautiful land on Earth is for the cows?
UN REP: That’s right. They weigh about 1600 pounds each so they have to eat a lot of grass on top of the fish and the chicken manure and whatever we else we can feed them.
CREATOR: You feed chicken manure to cows?
UN REP: We call it recycling.
CREATOR: So 43% of the beautiful land on Earth is for the cows? Is that what happened to the 3 trillion trees?
UN REP: Right, we had to chop down the 3 trillion trees and burn all the vegetation when we gave 43% of the Earth’s land to the cows.
CREATOR: So I guess you must get most of your food from all these cows you eat and all the other animals you eat?
UN REP: No, just 12%.
CREATOR: And you have no sense of shame?
UN REP: I don’t like to brag, but we’ve overcome it.
CREATOR: What happened to all the other animals I created on the land: tigers, leopards, giraffes, elephants?
UN REP: Oh, we’ve been killing them. Between 1970 and 2016 we eliminated two-thirds of the ones that were left. We’re on track to wipe out almost 100% of them by 2026.
CREATOR: And you do this because of this culture thing?
UN REP: Yes, we do this because, you know, our cultures revolve around eating animals. And hunting some that we don’t even eat.
CREATOR: Have you considered getting rid of culture?
UN REP: Can’t. The tourist industry depends on it. Every culture is a little bit different. People find that very charming. But most of them encourage us to eat cows.
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CREATOR: I remember that I created you people to get hungry when you look at an apple. Do you get hungry when you look at a cow?
UN REP: Of course not! Nobody gets hungry when they look at a cow!
CREATOR: Isn’t that a clue?
UN REP: Respectfully, you didn’t create us to be a subtle species.
CREATOR: It’s a little astonishing that you would turn over 43% of the land just to grow these cows that you eat.
UN REP: We don’t only eat them. We also drink their milk.
CREATOR: You’ve got to be kidding me? Baby humans drink the milk of cows?
UN REP: Not just the babies. Adults, too.
CREATOR: You’re pulling my leg?
UN REP: I’m dead serious.
CREATOR: You’re saying that fully grown humans--?
UN REP: Yes. Drink milk. And eat milk in different forms.
CREATOR: Do you people have schools? Any education at all?
UN REP: Yes, we do. And the textbooks in those schools are a proud part of our culture.
CREATOR: There we go again. And so I’ll bet the textbooks inform you to eat cows and drink their milk?
UN REP: You’re catching on quick.
CREATOR: But doesn’t it make you people fat and sick to eat 1600-pound animals and drink their lactation?
UN REP: You don’t know the half of it. We spend all the money we make on doctors, and we fight about who should pay for it.
CREATOR: So why on God’s earth do you keep doing this?
UN REP: I told you already.
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CREATOR: Culture.
UN REP: Right.
CREATOR: I was under the impression that, when I created Evolution, that you were evolving really big brains.
UN REP: Yeah. Big enough to create culture. Not quite big enough to figure out what’s wrong with it. So we’re kind of stuck in-between.
CREATOR: And now the earth’s atmosphere is overheating.
UN REP: Yup.
CREATOR: And you tell each other that it’s because of burning fossil fuels instead of the larger truth that it’s because of what you’ve done to the oceans and to the land?
UN REP: Yup. Because the fossil fuel industry isn’t—
CREATOR: That’s part of your culture.
UN REP: Right. Can’t question that.
CREATOR: I see your problem.
UN REP: Thank you for understanding.
CREATOR: Your brains are just big enough to make you think you’re smarter than you are. I have other worlds to check in on.
I’ll be back in 2026, and I expect to see that you’ve returned the Earth to the animals and the trees, and that you’re eating plants just like your cousins, who are smarter than you think and would never dream of eating cows.
I’m glad that the apes, at least, are not fools. Don’t disappoint me again.
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So, I think that the Creator in five minutes could figure it out. That the burning of fossil fuels is a small part of the problem. The larger part is what we’ve done to the Earth.
We’ve destroyed the oceans because we eat fish; we’ve destroyed the land and decimated the forests because we eat cows, which are not our food. Until we see the obvious and stop hiding behind culture, we won’t solve the problem.
Sincerely, Glen Merzer
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In closing, Dr. Peter Wadhams summed up our dilemma in an email a few months ago. Do we have the courage to save ourselves? He doubts that we do.
The world is indeed insane. Cutting down on animal food is rather like cutting down on having children. Without it we are doomed to a terrible fate.
But it requires enormous courage and energy to enact, suggesting that we simply don't have what it takes -- and are therefore condemning ourselves to that terrible fate.
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Perhaps the simplicity of this story can help jolt the masses into coming to grips with reality before it's too late.
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The Bottom Line
Even a 3rd grader can understand Merzer's tale about how we created a culture that is killing us.
It's Time to Stop the Insanity!
Let's just do it for the children of the world.
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As always, we will continue to provide tons of FREE data & "big picture" reference material at the end of each SOS Memo, beginning with free access to our two latest books. After the books below...scroll on down to the:
"Big Picture" Data and Video Section
In closing, do you want to do your part to help people get healthy...while slowing, stopping or even reversing climate change at the same time? Then, share this SOS Memo and the free books below with everyone you know.
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FREE: Two "Big Picture" Books
Our health, our planet and climate change
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To our knowledge, OUTCRY is the only book ever published that features a summary of "outcries" from the natural world, along with consensus conclusions of nine big picture scientists regarding our dilemma — AND an envisioned sustainable civilization of the future, using today’s technology.
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In mid 2022, we began giving this book away free of charge. Just click on this OUTCRY image and start reading.
"the most important info in all of humanity is going undiscussed."
We're talking about the crucial information regarding how we can possibly slow or stop climate change within a few years.
Want to help relieve the desperate situation in which we find ourselves, read OUTCRY as soon as you can and send it to everyone you know. Just click on the book cover above.
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Here is the 2nd book we are now offering FREE to the world public: a quick and easy read that I wrote with Dr. Kerry Graff in 2015.
Using the Power of Food
to Heal Ourselves and Our Planet
This compact book is still highly relevant, focusing on helping people take charge of their health and reverse chronic disease by urgently shifting to a whole-food, plant-based way of eating.
A fringe benefit of their efforts is the steady downsizing of the leading driver of climate change: animal agriculture. Merely suggesting that the masses cut back on their meat, diary, egg and fish consumption will accomplish very little.
We want everyone to completely eliminate all animal-based foods from their diet. Yes, that includes cheese, eggs and all forms of seafood.
For your children and grandchildren, just do it!
Please share today's timely SOS with everyone.
Click the image below to hear my recent (May 2022)
45-minute talk regarding much of what has been covered in my recent SOS Memos.
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Finally, please contact me about arranging a FREE "live" Zoom talk for your group. They will get a lot more out of my talk if they have read our two FREE books in advance of my talk.
Sincerely, J. Morris (Jim) Hicks
PS: Scroll on down for more "big picture" information that is mainly in the form of powerful videos, most of which are free.
For a concise summary of "big picture" information about our situation, take a look at the landing page of my primary website that I recently updated. Just click hpjmh.com
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What about the "preservation" of civilization? |
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To clarify, we're not trying to preserve civilization as we know it. Because what we have now is extremely wasteful, harmful and grossly unsustainable. It's an incredibly reckless way of living that is now threatening our very existence as a species.
We're talking about replacing it with an entirely new, ultra-green civilization of the future -- and we do our best to paint a picture of that envisioned way of sustainable living in OUTCRY. For what one Ohio State professor emeritus of history had to say about that book on Amazon, click here.
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As for making our stand on the only planet in the universe capable of keeping us alive, this "Big Picture" section below will provide you with handy reference materials on this most crucial of all topics. |
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"Big Picture" Data and Video Section
Beginning with the timeline of research
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Five World-Changing Films
That People Everywhere Must See
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Film #1 in 2014
In 2014, Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn produced their first documentary film Cowspiracy. Executive producer is Leonardo DiCaprio, it runs 90 minutes and has been on Netflix since 2015. In 2020, I met Kip and Keegan in Sedona where I was honored to be able to speak at the same conference with them and other great leaders in this movement like Dr. Sailesh Rao and Dr. Michael Greger.
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Film #3 in 2021
In 2021, Kip Anderson teamed up with British filmmaker Ali Tabrizi, to produce Seaspiracy, an 89-minute film that vividly and alarmingly reveals what is at stake when it comes to the crucial importance of our oceans to our future as a species. Most people have no idea regarding the environmental horrors of commercial fishing -- a disgusting industry that kills dolphins by the thousands and tosses them back into the ocean. It runs 90 minutes on Netflix. Click here to view the trailer.
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Film #4 in 2021
As our situation becomes more desperate, the documentary films become more terrifying. As alluded to earlier, we are literally Eating Our Way to Extinction, a process that is vividly covered in this 2021 film (81 minutes). Narrated and produced by Kate Winslet, you can watch this great film on Amazon Prime or on YouTube for $3.99. The great ocean scientist and former head of NOAA, Dr. Sylvia Earle lends powerful credibility to such a crucial topic.
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Film #5 in 2022
This new film (89 minutes) features a young activist who travels around his country, New Zealand in an effort to find out the truth about the horrors of the dairy industry in his native land.
The film uncovers alarming information about the environmental and health impacts of the industry -- leading up to the discovery that we are on the edge of the biggest global disruption of food and agriculture in history. This new film is now available for free at waterbear.com
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Grasping the "Big Picture"
These 2 films will help in understanding
our unprecedented dilemma.
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This 83-minute documentary is all about the findings that were documented in Dr. Stephen Emmott's 2013 book. TEN BILLION.
He brilliantly describes the grossly unsustainable way of living that has brought us to the emergency situation in which we find ourselves. Since I met him in London in 2013, he has become much more serious about the need to abolish the practice of eating meat, dairy, eggs and/or fish at almost every meal.
Just click on the hourglass image. Dr. Emmott delivers a very compelling message from the stage of a theater in London. This 2013 film is still relevant and will certainly help more people grasp that all-important "big picture."
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Finally, this half-hour video was published in November of 2021. It was produced by Michael Dowd, a non-scientific researcher like me who does a very fine job of explaining the many facets of the obstacles standing between us and our survival as a species.
As do practically all researchers, Dowd focuses entirely on the problem; not the solution. I prefer to focus on both.
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What else can you do?
Probably a lot more than you think
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Start with the new documentary (Film #4) mentioned earlier -- Eating our way to Extinction for $6 on Netflix. Watch it often with your friends and family.
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Share this SOS Memo widely: Certainties, Uncertainties & Priorities by J. Morris Hicks.
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Get an e-copy of OUTCRY. Visit Outcry page on Amazon and get a much bigger understanding of the situation in which all humans find ourselves.
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Inform all the young people in your world that you are deadly serious about this topic. Urge them to read these SOS Memos and our latest book, OUTCRY.
- Completely stop eating meat, dairy, eggs and fish today and tell everyone why you are taking such a "radical" step. You're doing it for the innocent children of the world.
- As noted above, do yourself a favor and make sure that your plant-based meals of the future consist of whole plants -- the kinds of foods that prevent or reverse most chronic diseases AND enable your body to effortlessly seek its optimal weight.
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I am confident that if a few million people carefully read and digested this book that there would be a more robust conversation around the world regarding our grossly unsustainable way of living in the developed world.
To my knowledge, OUTCRY remains the only book ever published that features an envisioned, totally-green, ultra-sustainable, super-desirable, future way of living for humans -- along with ideas for how we might get there as quickly as possible.
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The links below to earlier SOS Memos will help you understand how these ideas unfolded since 2018. |
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Promoting health, hope and harmony on planet Earth |
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