Religion, Politics, Sexual Reproduction and the Future of Human Society

Chris King Genotype 0.0.1 Aug 2015

Contents

Introduction: Future Consciousness in a World of Short-term Horizons

Human Emergence and the Evolutionary Paradigm

Founding Civilizations, Religion and the Patriarchal Reproductive Imperative

Electoral Democracy, Capitalism and Reproductive Conflict

Medical Revolutions and the Divorce of Sexuality from Reproduction

Religion, Fertility, Migration and the Planetary Future

Conclusions

Virtually all of the serious global problems facing the planet, from climate change, through habitat destruction to use of energy and natural resources, the ability to feed and care for a rising future population and our future viability, are long-term issues with time spans varying from decades to centuries, millennia and even millions of years. While addressing world poverty and resource equitability could take decades to achieve, even with the best of will, climate change will cause rising ocean levels and desertification that are likely to continue to reduce viable land areas for a thousand years to come. Loss of species diversity will bring a detriment to our planetary genetic resources on a time scale since the last mass extinction of around 65 million years. Many of these losses will never be recovered.

How has this situation come about? Is it a function of the failure of human intelligence to deal with completely understandable issues in the mass, or is it a product of something deeper to do with how cultures have emerged out of an evolutionary paradigm, which until recently maintained long-term stability through generation-by-generation conservation of social patterns modulated only by gradual changes at the genetic level through mutation and natural selection over many generations.

The article provides an in depth investigation of the causes and solutions.