The Cosmic Context of the Millennium Development Goals: Maximum Entropy and Sustainability

Cosmic Perspectives and the Myths We Need to Survive

“…But, we are certainly not acting like stewards when we clear land and monopolize it with monocultures for our growing numbers (Hardin 1993), displacing and significantly reducing populations of insects, birds and other wildlife (Diamond 2010, Wikelski & Tertitski 2016, Grooten & Almond 2018. Our self-serving speciesism gives our needs higher priority than the needs of other species, and has become a justification to expropriate resources everywhere and pollute the entire planet with our waste products (Daly & Farley 2010, Lineweaver & Townes O'Brien 2015. While constructing a cosmic perspective, keeping the good parts of humanism while abandoning these speciesist implications may enable us to change and survive.…”