In this book, the authors offer alternative views based on the relativity of
time and the cyclic nature of processes affecting our world. We contend that human
evolution has been a gradual, though running at various speeds, process during which a
complex system of feedback loops has led to enhancement of some human
characteristics and the loss of others. Overall, these feedbacks have been of a selfamplifying
nature which allows exponential change to occur. The same feedbacks can,
however, be reversed by minor alterations in the rates of various natural and cultural
cyclic processes that can produce stable states or even declines, depending on how their
delicate balances are influenced.
We do not presume to predict events. Our aim is to offer a means of understanding the
network of relationships connecting our biological make-up, our technologies, our
social structures and the nature of the universe - a framework for better understanding
of the current human condition and for construction of possible future scenarios.
Keywords: Climate change, Positive feedbacks, Universe.
