Transforming The Earth's Biosphere (www.mohdpeterdavis.com)

Vladimir Vernadsky (1863 - 1945) (photo : Google search)

The concept of the Biosphere (the envelope of living matter and its dead fossils surrounding the earth including the atmosphere) and how it developed over the last 4 billion years was the life work of Russian ‘bio geochemist’ VERNADSKY. He discovered that man’s ideas, his science and technology had become a ‘geological force’ far greater than nature itself in changing the biosphere and making the earth a more hospitable place to live for humans and all other living things. The most powerful force in the Biosphere is the combined human brain even though it forms an insignificant percentage of the Earth’s living matter. Vernadsky calls this creative part of the Biosphere the Noosphere – the sphere of human reason permitting ‘sustainable developments of both humans and the global environment.

Lyndon La Rouche (1922 - ) (photo : website search)

American physical economist, LA ROUCHE, recognizes man’s unique ability to discover invisible universal scientific principles which creates new technologies such as agriculture and electricity for transforming the biosphere. Thus, the human race could escape the Darwinian biological constraints and increase from a world population of perhaps 10 million, typical of higher apes, to 6 billion humans today. To go ‘Back to Nature’ as advocated by Green environmentalist is a tragic mistake. Without modern agriculture and functioning infrastructure, such as cities, schools, hospitals electricity, safe water and sanitation, the human population would soon crash to 1 billion or less. Civilization would collapse to feudalism and a New Dark Age. La Rouche advocates we quickly ‘wise up’ and ‘Go Back to Science’ particularly civillian nuclear power (www.larouchepac.com) The post-WW2 (1945-1960’s) was a period of technological optimism when great moral and scientific concepts captured the world’s imagination :• World hunger, poverty and infectious diseases could be eliminated • The Man on the Moon Project was successful • Nuclear power stations would desalinate water to ‘GREEN the DESERTS’.

UPM started operation in 1921 as an Agricultural College during British colonialism (2005 photo : Author).

Universiti Putra Malaysia, over its 75 years formation has developed the critical mass of biological scientists, engineers and agricultural economists to transform the Biosphere. However, this scientific expertise needs to be brought together with present UPM students and with UPM Alumni members who are now Captains of Industry. We need a ‘Crash Science’ mission similar to Roosevelt’s wartime Manhattan Project which launched the Nuclear Age.

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