The Limits of Intelligence: Why We Can Destroy Nature but Cannot Recreate It

After identifying the abnormal development of Homo sapiens' brain as the cause of all the evils afflicting the biosphere-namely, the carcinogenesis of the tumor that we have now become for planet Earth-this book highlights the limits that nonetheless mark that abnormal development. Beyond a certain level of expansion, in fact, our brain cannot go, and although it has managed to destroy a large part of other living beings, it is not capable of reconstituting the balance of natural elements that, over millions and millions of years, had formed spontaneously. And without that balance, life cannot survive. Hence the mad and desperate race to seek an intelligence more effective than our own, capable of restoring a sustainable equilibrium for the elements of nature that we have not yet destroyed.