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You would think by now we would have figured it out that we have created fantastic amounts of waste and pollution to produce things that we don’t ( and often can’t) use again.

Ecosystem survive and are sustainable because they circulate and re-use energy and materials.

However modern industry which is now using technologies requiring vast amounts of energy continues to rely mostly on the one-way street of resource extraction and depletion.

This combination obviously can’t continue indefinitely. In the face of the staggering amount of power we are allowing massive data storage for algorithms, businesses and governments must learn from ecosystems the concept of up- cycling.

Take the humble honey bee for example.

Time had forgotten the power of the honey Bee.

The honey bee most definitely had what archaeologists call magico – religious significance for many ancient civilisations.

Honey is referred to in most religions books. Indeed it was prescribed as a medicine back in the days of Egyptian, Alexander the Great, Sparta, King Heron, Neto’s wife. Aristotle, the Roman Empire, the Chinese civilisation. India , the Americas , the Aztecs, the Dark Ages, in fact without the honey bee we would not exist.

Honey now seems with the arrival of antibiotics to be relegated to something we put on toast. When it was an antibiotic away back in 1892 it was not taken for granted.

To day New Zealand has a particular variety of honey that kills bacteria the sort bacteria that causes so much woe. But for some reason the country does not promote its production.

The Pohutukawa tree or Christmas Tree quintessential Kiwi produces a honey

The Manuka a bushy tree produces a honey called tea – tree honey .

On the other hand if we allow technology to develop exclusively with in the capitalist world we will have a world more divided with inequalities at its heart and than ever before,

If we are lucky we will have a digital global order.

There is no pause button on these technologies it’s now or never that we harness them to sustainably human values.

There is no simple way back, if there is indeed any way at all .

The Beady eye has for some considerable time been warning if we don’t have totally transparent and accountability we will just become products.

It is beyond comprehension that we have become so docile in giving up information for these self learning algorithms to plunder the the world for short term profit it seems we don’t give a fuck about the future of the planet.

To put this in perspective just take a moment to look at the planet that you’re most likely to live the rest of your life on.

Just under 5 billion years old. Hanging in space, surrounded by satellites spinning at 1600 km, travelling at 107,000km around the sun, it has and is presently supported billions of us, on smartphones, plus all known species that ever existed.

In return we its guard have plundered its finite resources, polluted its atmosphere, seas and rivers and lakes, destroyed its natural forests, covered it in billions of tons of concrete, tarmac, all for short term profit.

In response we are just beginning to reap the rewards of Climate Change, that no tech is going to stop.

Resulting in mass migration, inevitable wars, social upheavals etc you would think that we by now understand what is at stake.

For example: This year thousands have braved crossing the Darien gap in Panama to get to the USA, not to mention the Mediterranean , or the English Channel.

Look at Bangladesh under water. The question becomes why do we do nothing? This is a war on every sense of the word and we must win it.

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