For many years, I have chosen to write differently. I
have never written to comfort people or to repeat what they already hear every
day. I write because I believe that asking uncomfortable questions is one of
the last forms of intellectual freedom still available.
Over the years, I have become convinced that my blog, SaisiNews,
has attracted attention far beyond what one would normally expect from an
independent publication. I believe it has been examined twice by the CIA. I
also believe that, for years, Google has displayed warnings or limitations
affecting the visibility of some of my articles, discouraging readers by
suggesting that the content is undesirable. These are my own conclusions based
on my personal observations, and I alone assume full responsibility for making
these statements.
Whether readers agree with me or not is not my
concern.
What matters is that they ask themselves one simple
question:
Who decides what deserves to be read?
The Planet
Never Asked for Our Permission
Politically or not, our planet Earth has never stopped
evolving.
Long before the first human walked across Africa, long
before the dinosaurs ruled the planet, long before trees even existed, Earth
was already changing.
About 4.54 billion years ago, our planet was
nothing more than a gigantic sphere of molten rock. During hundreds of millions
of years, meteorites bombarded its surface relentlessly. Oceans appeared,
disappeared and reappeared. Entire continents collided before breaking apart
again. Volcanoes transformed the atmosphere countless times.
Earth never remained the same.
It never will.
The idea that humanity somehow controls this
extraordinary planetary machine may be one of the greatest illusions ever
created.
We Believe We
Are the Most Intelligent Species
Human beings often define intelligence according to
their own standards.
We build cities.
We create computers.
We develop artificial intelligence.
We travel into space.
We split atoms.
We decode DNA.
Therefore, we conclude that we must be the most
intelligent species ever to exist.
But what if intelligence has been misunderstood from
the beginning?
What if intelligence is not measured by domination...
...but by balance?
The oldest forests have survived for millions of years
without governments.
Coral reefs created entire ecosystems without
universities.
Fungi communicate beneath our feet through underground
networks that scientists only recently began to understand.
Whales navigate entire oceans without satellites.
Birds migrate thousands of kilometres with astonishing
precision.
Perhaps intelligence is not simply the ability to
create.
Perhaps it is the ability to survive without
destroying the very system that allows life to exist.
Is Humanity
Really Responsible for Everything?
Today, every political discussion eventually leads to
climate change.
The narrative appears simple.
Humanity is responsible.
Case closed.
I disagree with such simplicity.
This does not mean I deny human responsibility.
On the contrary.
Industrialisation has transformed the planet.
Oil changed civilization forever.
The discovery of petroleum created modern
transportation, modern medicine, synthetic materials, plastics, fertilizers and
global commerce.
It also created dependence.
Plastic now exists in our oceans.
Microplastics have been detected in human blood,
lungs, placentas and even unborn babies.
Forests disappear.
Species vanish.
Rivers become polluted.
Wars poison entire regions.
Cities consume more energy than entire countries did
only one century ago.
All this is real.
Yet another reality also exists.
Earth's climate has never been stable.
Millions of years before humans existed, our planet
experienced dramatic climate transformations.
Entire oceans disappeared.
Ice covered continents.
Sea levels rose hundreds of metres.
Supervolcanoes darkened the skies.
Asteroids erased nearly 75% of all living species.
Five major mass extinctions reshaped life itself.
Nature did not ask humanity for permission.
Earth Is Not a
Machine
Many people speak about "saving the planet."
Perhaps we should choose our words more carefully.
Earth does not need us.
We need Earth.
If humanity disappeared tomorrow...
Forests would grow again.
Rivers would slowly recover.
Cities would collapse.
Concrete would crack.
Steel would rust.
Animals would return.
Nature would continue.
Life would evolve.
Earth has already survived events far more
catastrophic than modern civilization.
The real question is therefore not:
Can humanity save Earth?
The real question is:
Can humanity save itself?
Politics: The
Theatre of Contradictions
Politics claims to protect humanity.
History often demonstrates the opposite.
Every generation promises peace.
Every generation prepares for war.
The twentieth century witnessed two World Wars.
It also produced the Holocaust, Hiroshima, Nagasaki,
Vietnam, Afghanistan, Rwanda and countless forgotten conflicts.
The twenty-first century promised a new era.
Instead, wars continue.
Ukraine.
Gaza.
Sudan.
Myanmar.
The Middle East.
The list keeps growing.
Each conflict is justified differently.
Freedom.
Security.
Religion.
Democracy.
National interest.
Energy.
History.
Revenge.
Yet ordinary people continue paying the price.
Children lose parents.
Parents lose children.
Entire generations inherit destruction they never
created.
Donald Trump
and Political Reality
Donald Trump has become one of the most polarising
political figures of modern history.
Some see him as a patriot.
Others see him as a danger.
He once declared that he could end the war between
Russia and Ukraine within twenty-four hours.
Reality proved far more complicated.
Later, military action involving Iran was presented by
his administration as necessary to weaken a hostile regime and promote greater
regional security.
Whether one agrees or disagrees with those decisions,
one fact remains undeniable:
Every military escalation creates consequences
extending far beyond the battlefield.
Oil prices fluctuate.
Financial markets react.
Governments increase military spending.
Public debt rises.
Inflation returns.
The poorest families always pay first.
Political leaders rarely suffer the immediate
consequences of war.
Ordinary citizens almost always do.
Every Nation
Speaks About Peace
Yet almost every nation continues investing billions
in weapons.
Governments organise climate conferences.
At the same time, military industries expand.
Leaders promise environmental responsibility.
Meanwhile, forests continue disappearing.
Countries negotiate carbon emissions.
At the same time, bombs release enormous quantities of
greenhouse gases that rarely appear in public climate discussions.
War itself remains one of humanity's greatest
environmental disasters.
Destroyed cities generate millions of tons of debris.
Oil facilities burn.
Chemical plants explode.
Agricultural land becomes contaminated.
Wildlife disappears.
Yet these environmental costs are rarely discussed
with the same intensity as individual carbon footprints.
Ancient
Books... Ancient Questions
Throughout history, human beings have searched for
answers.
Religious texts.
Ancient manuscripts.
Sacred books.
Philosophical writings.
Scientific revolutions.
Each generation believed it had finally discovered the
truth.
Yet humanity still cannot answer the simplest
questions.
Why do we exist?
What is consciousness?
What came before the Universe?
Is intelligence unique to Earth?
Is life merely biological...
...or something much larger?
Perhaps the greatest mistake of civilization has been
confusing belief with certainty.
Is Earth Alive?
This question may sound absurd.
Yet perhaps it deserves serious thought.
Earth regulates temperatures.
It recycles water.
It renews ecosystems.
It transforms carbon.
It creates new crust.
It destroys old crust.
Volcanoes build land.
Oceans absorb heat.
Forests regulate atmospheric gases.
Everything interacts.
Nothing exists independently.
Scientists call this Earth System Science.
Others refer to the Gaia Hypothesis.
Whatever name we choose, one observation remains
fascinating.
Earth behaves less like an object...
...and more like an immense self-regulating system.
Not conscious in the human sense.
But extraordinarily dynamic.
Perhaps We Are
Not the Masters
Human civilization often behaves as though ownership
equals control.
We own land.
We own companies.
We own technology.
We own governments.
But ownership has never meant permanence.
Empires believed they would last forever.
Rome disappeared.
The Mongol Empire disappeared.
Colonial empires disappeared.
Economic powers rise.
Economic powers fall.
Perhaps humanity itself represents only one chapter in
Earth's extraordinarily long history.
The Final
Question
Perhaps climate change is not simply humanity versus
nature.
Perhaps it is humanity confronting the reality that it
never truly controlled the planet.
Earth has always evolved.
Continents moved before us.
Volcanoes erupted before us.
Ice ages came before us.
They will continue after us.
Our responsibility is therefore immense—not because we
command Earth, but because we possess something unique among known species: the
ability to understand the consequences of our own actions.
Whether we choose wisdom or arrogance may determine
the future of our civilization.
But it will not determine the future of Earth.
The planet existed long before humanity.
It will almost certainly exist long after us.
Perhaps the most important question is not whether
Earth will survive humanity.
Perhaps the real question is whether humanity deserves
to survive on Earth.
"The greatest danger facing civilization is not
ignorance.
It is the certainty that we already know enough."
SAISI
