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Transforming The Earth's Biosphere
Transforming The Earth's Biosphere
Transforming The Earth's Biosphere
The concept of the Biosphere (the envelope of living American physical economist, LA ROUCHE, recognizes
matter and its dead fossils surrounding the earth including man’s unique ability to discover invisible universal scientific
the atmosphere) and how it developed over the last 4 billion principles which creates new technologies such as
years was the life work of Russian ‘bio geochemist’ agriculture and electricity for transforming the biosphere. Thus,
VERNADSKY. He discovered that man’s ideas, his science the human race could escape the Darwinian biological
and technology had become a ‘geological force’ far greater constraints and increase from a world population of perhaps
than nature itself in changing the biosphere and making the 10 million, typical of higher apes, to 6 billion humans today.
earth a more hospitable place to live for humans and all To go ‘Back to Nature’ as advocated by Green
other living things. environmentalist is a tragic mistake. Without modern
The most powerful force in the Biosphere is the agriculture and functioning infrastructure, such as cities,
combined human brain even though it forms an insignificant schools, hospitals electricity, safe water and sanitation, the
percentage of the Earth’s living matter. Vernadsky calls this human population would soon crash to 1 billion or less.
creative part of the Biosphere the Noosphere – the sphere of Civilization would collapse to feudalism and a New Dark Age.
human reason permitting ‘sustainable developments of both La Rouche advocates we quickly ‘wise up’ and ‘Go Back to
humans and the global environment. Science’ particularly civillian nuclear power (www.larouchepac.com)
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.
Malaysia can play a leading and highly practical role in ‘Greening the Earth’Thisfor the has been
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