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“Awesome bridge!”
The Millau Viaduct is part of the new E11 expressway connecting Paris and Barcelona and features the highest bridge piers ever constructed. The tallest is 240 metres (787 feet) high and the overall height is an impressive 336 metres (1102 feet), making this the highest bridge in the world. It's taller than the Eiffel Tower.
Interestingly, the Millau Viaduct is not straight. Why? Because a straight road could induce a floating sensation as you drive across it. So, a slight curve remedies that feeling. The curve is 20 km in range. Moreover, the road has a light incline of 3% to improve the visibility and reassure the driver.
Humanity can rise to great heights in many dimensions. We have achieved great feats of manipulation of our material world, overcoming great challenges.
Humanity is failing in the challenge of dealing with our internal worlds of exploring and developing awareness of our relationships with each other and with the environment. We have been working from assumptions of scarcity in which personal gain gives us material wealth. This has become our measure for our success in the world: accumulating more wealth than someone else.
In focusing on and pursuing material gains, we have become spiritual paupers. We have lost our connections with each other and with the environment. By exploiting other people and the environment for our personal gain, and by doing this very thoroughly, we have created a world that will no longer sustain any of us. No amount of wealth will keep any person alive when global heating destroys all live as we know it today on earth.
This is our challenge:
To recognize that seeking mastery OVER the environment leads to exploitations of natural resources to the point of exhausting them.
To realize that we must work together for the good of all people and for the LONG TERM good of the environment.
e.g. Saving houses in Los Angeles from the fires at the expense of letting the forests burn is not a good choice - in the light of the fact that trees are an essential resource in dealing with global heating.
If humanity does not work together and does not do everything possible to preserve and restore the environment rather than to exploit it for the benefit of the few who view themselves as the chosen elite on this world, we and all future generations are doomed to extinction.
Read James Lovelock, The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning, 2009 for a sobering view of where humanity has seriously gone astray.
Blessings
Dan
Interestingly, the Millau Viaduct is not straight. Why? Because a straight road could induce a floating sensation as you drive across it. So, a slight curve remedies that feeling. The curve is 20 km in range. Moreover, the road has a light incline of 3% to improve the visibility and reassure the driver.
Humanity can rise to great heights in many dimensions. We have achieved great feats of manipulation of our material world, overcoming great challenges.
Humanity is failing in the challenge of dealing with our internal worlds of exploring and developing awareness of our relationships with each other and with the environment. We have been working from assumptions of scarcity in which personal gain gives us material wealth. This has become our measure for our success in the world: accumulating more wealth than someone else.
In focusing on and pursuing material gains, we have become spiritual paupers. We have lost our connections with each other and with the environment. By exploiting other people and the environment for our personal gain, and by doing this very thoroughly, we have created a world that will no longer sustain any of us. No amount of wealth will keep any person alive when global heating destroys all live as we know it today on earth.
This is our challenge:
To recognize that seeking mastery OVER the environment leads to exploitations of natural resources to the point of exhausting them.
To realize that we must work together for the good of all people and for the LONG TERM good of the environment.
e.g. Saving houses in Los Angeles from the fires at the expense of letting the forests burn is not a good choice - in the light of the fact that trees are an essential resource in dealing with global heating.
If humanity does not work together and does not do everything possible to preserve and restore the environment rather than to exploit it for the benefit of the few who view themselves as the chosen elite on this world, we and all future generations are doomed to extinction.
Read James Lovelock, The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning, 2009 for a sobering view of where humanity has seriously gone astray.
Blessings
Dan
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