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Cost of Humanity To Mother Nature: Living vs. Lying

The cost of humanity to Mother Nature is the damage we humans do to Mother Nature. The most grevious sin is CO2: The Global, Multi-Tasking Killer Molecule. Our CO2 sins fall into two category, the cost of living and the cost of lying.

1. The cost of living is the CO2 from producing the necessary items for life, our needs.
2. The cost of lying is the CO2 from metastasizing the unneeded items of life, our wants.

Too often we allow our wants to dominate and destroy our needs.

This dichotomy is echoed in the difference between work and play. If one is willing to bastardize the language to justify one's falsehoods, one can say that players have the work ethic. They don't. The have the play pathos.

If we are to fulfill the Primary Moral Imperative of saving life on earth from climate change, we need to "de-time" our wants and "re-time" our needs. The annual college basketball tournament is appropriately titled, "March Madness." It is mad to orchestrate increased CO2-sinning for play.

One poster player for college mis-priorities is the state of Colorado which is dreading the upcoming fire season. Over 800 million trees are dead, dry timber. Burning up the courts, student players are burning up their futures. Are Colorado's habitual politicians and college presidents organizing students, staff, parents and alumni to save Colorado? Or, are they organizing play events to which millions annually drive their gas-guzzling, CO2-sinning cars? As has been said of Australia and Alberta, "Burn, Colorado, Burn--You deserve it."

Before the unending droughts and heatwaves devastate the Northern Hemisphere, the Regional Lottery of Global Warming will continue to wreak havoc on different regions: Sin today, suffer tomorrow.

Colorado reflects why we are in an accelerating, synergistic existential meltdown. Sure, the Trumpies are environmentally corrupt, incompetent hypocrites. But, more importantly, so are the millions of humanity who obsess on play including most, if not all, of the readers.

In Virginia, school officials turn a blind eye to teachers and staff, en masse, calling in sick to attend a black basketball tournament. Did breaking the color barrier in sports distract and derail black progress?  Compare black progress to their co-marchers for civil rights, the Jews. Where are Jews today? In courts, universities, medicine and Congress. The only real winners in breaking the color barrier were the white team owners who wanted blacks' ticket dollars.

Not alone is Virginia in misplaced priorities: News account claim more people filled out March Madness "brackets" than voted in the last presidential election. Not this worker.

America is the only nation in the world with advertisement-driven competitive sports in its education system. The results are obvious. From top five placement in math and science in the 1970s, the U.S. today is below thirty in national rankings.

Math matters. More play means less learning, means less means and means meaningless wasted minds. Sadly, the organization initiated in 1909 to elevate better-tanned Americans in social, economic and political status has chosen to enchain and waste young minds to the emotional, economic lottery of play, play, play. When querried in the 1980s why he donated to black youth sports, a racist white philantropist said, "To keep them on the other side of the track and in poverty."

Math matters. School systems that replace playing fields with playing instruments has a double digit jump in graduation rates and college attendance as well as a drop in bullying. Math matters.

The claim that sports is a ticket out of the ghetto is a half-truth like "igknowance is bliss." Igknowance is bliss until the igknowed problems blitz your life. Likewise, play is a ticket out of the ghetto, mostly a round-trip ticket. A short, round-trip ticket.

Given the thousands of former footballers seeking after-the-play, court-ordered funding, play is just that, play with no long-term benefits. All their playful CO2 sinning had no lasting savings. White racists do not need to keep blacks in generational poverty, daylabor pools, crowded prisons or street riots. Black math does a sufficient job.

The play-obsessed will decry this essay as a racist rant.  For the sake of Mother Nature on which our future depends, it is a plea for less play, for more work and for semantic honesty. The Primary Moral Imperative cannot be achieved without all Americans working more and playing less. The criticism of too much play in the lives of African-Americans applies equally to Americans.  A Soccer Mom or Nasdag Dad who wants a play-obsessed child instead of a learned worker is saddled with boomerang kids or worse.

In summary, while igknowance of the law is no excuse, igknowance of Mother Nature's laws is no escape.