Hi Tony, this is not strictly something one could put in a Time Capsule, but is, I feel, a valid comment on our situation today which could be of positive interest to someone in some future time. David, with a repost!

Advice to the New Incumbent

Since our demise will probably be due to our own stupidity or greed, or both, we would not be too well placed as a species to advise our successors! We had it all and we blew it – but with a little hindsight…………. What would I leave to the next incumbent of this planet?

Advice?                 Certainly

Information?         Certainly

Warnings?             Certainly

Advice:

·         Respect the earth and all you find there, animal, mineral and vegetable

·         Treat each other with respect and honesty, giving help where you can

·         Prepare a set of rules (laws), by which you can live and protect the weaker among you

·         Do not allow your population to increase beyond that which you can reasonably sustain

·         Limit your energy consumption to that which can be supplied from renewable sources – solar, wind, water power

·         Ensure that everyone is properly educated, not only in academics, but also in practical skills, social skills, and     personal health and fitness

·         Ensure that everyone has access to health care as needed

·         Ensure that everyone has access to fresh water, food and shelter

·         Find out how to make chocolate!

Information:

·         I leave you my copy of Bill Bryson’s “A Short History of Nearly Everything”

·         I leave you my copy of The Times “Atlas of the World” (as it was!)

·         I leave you my copy of the Dorling Kindersley “Visual Dictionary”

·         I leave you my copy of The Times “Concise History of the World”

·         I leave you my copy of “Earth”

·         I leave you my copy of “The Human Body”

·         I leave you my copy of “Ocean”

·         I leave you my copy of my wife’s poetry

Warnings:

·         Do not use fossil fuels. Ever.

·         Do not practice deforestation – the forests are part of the balance of nature

·         Do not over-fish, over-hunt or in any way interfere with the balance of nature

·         Do not be afraid to correct miscreants

Our successors may, of course, come from a more advanced knowledge base than that which we have currently attained. If not, and the whole thing starts again, we may not progress beyond the stage of licking lichen off a rock – in which case “nature” will have won, simply by our evolution coming to a dead end! Hey Ho…
But seriously, as a species and looking only on the positive side, we have invented, designed, explored, painted, sculpted, written and thought amazing things. And we have loved.

© deezee 2011