by Elliott Maynard, Ph.D., CPCM and Sharon Tanemura Maynard, ARCT, CMC
Over the past century, advances in transportation, computers, cellular phone technology, satellite radio and television, and the global internet have effectively expanded the human field of perception from an area of a few square miles, to encompass the entire surface of our Planet - extending into the far reaches of Outer Space to include even the most distant galaxies. Within this unprecedented and explosive leap of technology, we humans have acquired a whole new array of unique scientific tools, which can be used to monitor and protect Earth’s precious natural resources. Through our global network of remote sensing satellites (the “Eyes of Gaia”), we have achieved vastly enhanced capabilities to accurately monitor and diagnose vital biospherical parameters such as Atmospheric and Water Pollution, Glacial and Polar Ice Thickness, Forest Cover, Desertification, Oceanic Current Systems, Migrations of Fishes and Marine Mammals, and the powerful dynamics of our Planetary Weather Patterns. By integrating data from the global satellite network, supercomputers could be used to model a real-time “Virtual Earth,” creating a dynamic “Biospherical Library,” which would constitute an unprecedented information resource for scientists, students and citizens of all nations of Earth. (more…)