510 DX, What are some of the leading problems facing Humanity, related to the eternal question of "WHY ARE WE HERE"

 Let's begin with, why that question is so universal and has caused so much hate, bigotry, and human suffering. 

There are three main lines involved in this question. The personal, communal, and governmental or religious ideology can tie people together worldwide! The problem comes when competing ideologies create divisions and even hate. In some ways, the same can be said of political beliefs!

Right now we are talking about WHY WE ARE HERE as a species, not as a religious, political, or physiological concept! Scientists see evolution or adaptation as random changes that allow future offspring a better chance of continuation! But how can that be? Any random change will never be able to influence anyone but their own offspring. Even if the random change is beneficial, it could never be passed on to a whole species even in ten thousand generations. and we are not talking about a single beneficial change, but thousands of necessary changes that were needed to happen in the 200,000 to 500,000 years "Modern Mankind has been on the planet"! The only way this could happen is if the total population of a region, were wiped out and only the winning side could completely take over the area leaving only those with the necessary traits able to repopulate the area! this would have had to happen all over the planet, only allowing the genes of each area to make at least the outward appearance of each culture not just the dominant factor but the only consideration! On an Island such as Japan, with very difficult borders to cross before certain necessary knowledge became available, yes a case could be made for outward appearances! But the internal structure of the body, how can that be seen as so universal throughout Humanity, the brain being the hardest to explain, for that reason alone many cultures have tried to say that one line of humans must be better than another line. None of this has withstood Scientific testing!

      Let's just say that right now, all humanity has enough in common that we are all one species! This at least gives us a place to start from! Most species on the planet fill niches. While humanity fills places. No other species lives in as many different environments as we do! This is not an unimportant distinction. We create our necessary needs instead of simply fitting into an already-developed environment!

To understand the question "WHY ARE WE HERE" we must start at the true beginning of carbon-based life, approximately 3.5 billion years ago, not only the 200,000 to 500,000 years humanity has been on the planet!

Earth's atmosphere was completely different from what we both enjoy today and what we need to survive! it was over 100 times as dense as today's atmosphere and made up of approximately 96% carbon dioxide, and a little nitrogen, and the remainder is believed to have been noble gases! No Oxygen, for Oxygen, quite easily combines with many other elements and therefore did not become available as free O2 in the atmosphere for millions of years until all of those possible connections were filled. So carbon-based life began with what was available in the environment it found itself in! Energy was available both from the Sun, but also from the internal heat of the planet, carbon was available massively in both the atmosphere and in the great waters of the planet, and Water was available just about everywhere! so these were the main driving factors that life used! 

Carbon dioxide is normally a gas in Earth's atmosphere, and as a gas, it is not in the Earth's crust until carbon-based life uses it. When carbon-based life first started, when that life died there was no way for the next life to have access to it because there was nothing available to break down the bonds that prior life had created, as the bacterial had not yet developed that could break down those bonds but with over 200,000,000 Gigatonnes ( one Gigaton is one billion tons) of the stuff in the atmosphere and waters of the planet, that was not a problem! The planet's plate techtonics were already quite active and when the carbon that had been used for prior carbon-based life came into contact with temperatures associated with the movements of the planet's plates this has always been the only way that long-term stored carbon could be returned back into both the atmosphere and the waters of the planet as carbon-dioxide!

As life develops it constantly needs to create other species to repair losses created by life! But many times those efforts have not been enough, and those inadequacies have caused almost every mass extinction event in Earth's past, with the single exception of the asteroid impact that killed off the dinosaurs around 65 million years ago! It has always been that Earth still has a somewhat active plate tectonics that has returned enough sequestrated material back into the environment and atmosphere that has allowed Carbon-based life to start anew!

The most massive change in the development of life started right after the last Snowball Earth Event that ended around 500,000,000 million years ago and had lasted for around 300,000,000 years! Large life as we know it began. even after the asteroid impact that killed off the dinosaurs, allowed life to go where it had never gone before! But "life was learning" What do I mean by that statement? I really do not know, but suddenly new species were appearing that were competing with other life in keeping mid-term carbon storage (BASICALLY TREES AND SOIL CARBON) from removing too much carbon dioxide from the atmosphere where it was no longer available for abundant life to exist on the planet! Beavers, porcupines, insects, that attached whole species of trees, and grazing animals that loved tree saplings! All helped in extending the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere high enough to keep Earth in a cyclical in nature ice-age that had started around 2.5 million years ago, instead of a Snowball Earth Event ice-age!

Once Humanity entered into the picture, nothing much changed until our population increased enough that we could no longer feed, clothe, shelter, maintain, or protect ourselves by remaining as a hunter-gatherer society and were forced worldwide to become an agricultural-based society! Then things really started to change! Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere started to rise, at first only postponing Earth's entry into the next ice-age that should have started around 3,500 years ago. Once humanity discovered fossil fuels used in massive quantities starting with peat, coal, and burning rocks, we stopped completely the next-last and neverending ice-age that Scientists have nicknamed a "Snowball Earth Event"!`

    But how did we come at just the right time to prevent the Never-ending Snowball Earth event? Even more importantly, how did Earth go from being multicellular and extremely limited in being able to regulate Earth's atmosphere and needs, but in terms of timeframes to jumping so far ahead in being somewhat self-regulating? This is where Earth actually can be seen as learning from past extinction events and somehow directing species development to prevent another Exiction event due to the cooling of the planet's core and the association of its plate tectonics slowing down and therefore not being able to return enough long-term store carbon into carbon dioxide in its atmosphere! 

    So starting with an atmosphere that had around 200,000,000 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide in it, and 0% oxygen around 3.5 billion years ago, carbon-based life has reduced that atmosphere to consisting of around 800 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide which works out to approximately 415 parts per million, Nitrogen at around 780,000 parts per million, Oxygen at around 210,000 parts per million, Argon, a rare gas at around 9,000 parts per million (but still around 21 times as plentiful as carbon dioxide is in the atmosphere)!

     So when the species of humanity entered the picture and we started to both convert mid-term stored carbon, into short-term and immediate use carbon dioxide directly back into the atmosphere Was that a simple randomness of evolution that ended up saving the planet from the next and neverending "Snowball Earth event" or was it a continuation of Earth bringing forth species development to keep mid-term carbon storage in check, and when that was not enough, using a new species that could actually add long-term stored carbon into the equation of life, that before humanities existence only the planet's plate tectonics could do?

     This is where humanity's purpose enters!!! This answers the eternal question "WHY ARE WE HERE"? What it does not answer is "Did Earth create us as a solution? Or are we simply the luckiest planet that we know of in near space to have a species come in the nick of time purely by chance? Dan

"Life Cycle of a Planet by Daniel James Kadavy" explains what 3.5 billion years of carbon-based life and its corresponding carbon sequestration has forced our most beautiful planet to go through including almost every single extinction event in its history!

https://lifecycleofaplanet.blogspot.com

        One very important thing to remember is that without Earth having a way to return long-term stored carbon back into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, all carbon-based life would have died out well over a billion years ago! Earth's molten core and the resulting plate tectonics are the reason that carbon-based life is still on the planet! Natural carbon sequestration is a process that nothing can stop! Just as the "Perpetual Motion of carbon-based life" is also impossible! Dan