Roy Ratcliffe

Of all the millions of species of life that have existed on earth over billions of years of evolution, only the members of one species has consciously and systematically done the following.

Over-polluted, seas, lakes, rivers, air, top soil and land in general.

Destroyed - on a huge-scale, members of its own species.

Dismembered on a massive scale, members of many other species (forests, insects, fish).

Elevated a minority of its own species to live in obscene luxury.

Relegated huge numbers of its own species (male and female) to low status.

Have attained the most profound amounts of knowledge.

However, it is only in the last five or six thousand years, out of the 500,000 plus years of hominid and Homo sapien evolution, that the human species began to initiate such actions and only in the Middle/Near East and Europe.

Until then, the rest of the planet remained populated by humans but largely unpolluted and ecologically undisturbed, by them. Now in the 21st century every corner, every height and every depth of the earth’s biosphere is extremely polluted and ecologically and climatically imbalanced.

In exploring the main species of life on earth, this book is intended for those who are puzzled by how human history has led to activities that have resulted in the characteristics listed above and who have begun to wonder what can be done to halt and even reverse those symptoms.