Over the years, our information about global warming has been a little short on solutions and a little long on the scary.  We have previously suggested that the green house effect is a natural cycle.  Although humanity contributes to global warming, the green house effect would continue even if every human being on Earth eliminated their carbon footprint and world emissions were returned to a pre-industrial level. 

What is the little scary part?   In the natural cycle of the warming up, there is also a cooling down.  Some movie producers and a few scientists have suggested the major weather issue facing humanity could be an ice age but scientific theory about a cooling down has been limited to a small minority.  Most mainstream scientists have kept their focus on the Earth’s temperature climb—the first phase of the two phase cycle—not realizing that the warming up and the cooling down are one cycle tightly bound. 

With the green house effect fully underway at the present time, you could technically say the ice age has already begun.

If you have ever desired an alternative to the image of two-thirds of the United States covered in ice, terraforming Africa is one way to repair the ozone holes and reverse the progression of the ice age.

Terraforming has been a vision of science fiction writers for decades but the science of terraforming has also quietly been developing.  The science has now reached the stage where it can work.  There is the scientific know-how today to terraform the dying, drying regions of Africa.     

I looked up the definition of terraforming in the Wikipedia.  Here’s what the free encyclopedia said:  ‘earth-shaping’ or terraforming a planet or moon is the process of “deliberately modifying the atmosphere, temperature, surface topography and ecology of a planet” to make it habitable for humans.  The science has mostly envisioned the planet Mars as its first big project although there has also been talk of terraforming the Moon. 

The Moon is not a good place for terraforming.  The Moon is not even a planet but a fairly broken down asteroid.   If you terraformed the Moon, you would have to import your top soil.  You can’t create a stable atmosphere without top soil and the Moon doesn’t have the dirt needed to create an atmosphere.  Mars can work as a project but terraforming the Moon won’t.  

It would not be wisdom to terraform the Moon except to the extent that the ‘failure’ can give the practical testing to go forward with Mars. 

Rather than start with the Moon, science could start with the Earth.  Terraforming vast regions of Africa would assist the Earth’s health so it doesn’t go the way of Mars and loose its atmosphere.  Rather than invest human resources into making another planet habitable, we could use the current science of terraforming to restore the atmosphere on Earth.

Terraforming is a science demanding understandings of many interrelated fields from biology to ecology to geology to chemistry.  In the current understandings, there now exists the know-how to counteract global warming and an ice age with a terraforming focus on Africa.

That doesn’t mean our science fully understands the crisis of top soil.  How much top soil are we loosing as a planet at the present moment?  The world’s scientific emphasis on the temperature climb has somehow missed the importance of this vital component.   No one seems to know how serious our top soil erosion has become.  One of our most important depleting natural resources is not thoroughly understood by our science.

An ice age renews the top soil.  The coming ice age is the Earth’s way to terraform.  However, the world is drying out so fast with the warming up, there could be a problem even with an ice age.  There needs to be humidity to have an ice age and when the drying out happens too quickly, everything can get cooked instead of terraformed and renewed.  

For these and other reasons, terraforming Africa could be a positive development.  It would close down the green house effect by turning it off.  It would stop the steady progression towards an ice age by creating a healthy new atmosphere.

Once upon a time, Africa was the genesis medium for the whole world when everything got started.  Terraforming Africa would return humanity to its origin while assisting the entire region to accelerate its journey towards spiritual maturity.  It would change the energy of the African continent in a positive way by creating life.  Instead of death, Africa would become the place that was giving life to the entire planet.  One effect of giving life to the planet would be that the people that live there could find a way to stop the killing of each other.

Terraforming Africa would repair the ozone layer, create a new atmosphere for the Earth, reverse the green house effect and the ice age while putting our planet into a blossoming of life never before seen.  The Earth would simply be gorgeous. 

No one seems to have thought about terraforming Africa.  We invite its consideration now.  Should you feel drawn to this possibility, here is one way to help this idea gain traction.   

This coming month in Ashland there will be a full day devoted to understanding how to change the world via the dream state.  The dream state is going to be the best way to reach those that have the know-how of terraforming.  On Saturday, February 23, you can join others in presenting this new idea to the scientific community via the dream.  

By sending out an Earth renewal idea in the dream, you place it into consciousness.  This is how new ideas appear in many places in many minds all at the same time.   The scientists currently working on terraforming will get the idea.

We live in a time when it is favorable to generate new understandings.  Terraforming Africa is an idea whose seed of understanding could be planted into the human mind by a few people, creating a new dream and new possibility that would work for humanity and the Earth.   

Based on the teachings of Sheradon Bryce
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Copyright by Rennie Davis 2008