The Death of Poverty Is Growth into Wealth: What Makes Sellable People Standout in This Diverse Universe?

By Adegbuyi Dare Oduguwa

This book is a personal development blueprint that helps in proffering solution to blind spots. The ideology of this book relies on the motion that we all have a poverty (financial, health, divorce etc) in our lives. Meanwhile, the best solution to poverty is to be conscious of it and develop yourself to the point of prosperity. Move over, the process of growth into prosperity is determined by many factors that are within and outside our control, those factors beyond our control we have no or little action we can do to mitigate the effect on us, but those factors within our control can effectively by utilise to our advantage. Unfortunately, many people are not aware about how to use the factors to free themselves from poverty. Fortunately, this book helps to diagnose your poverty status, give you awareness to various indicators that shapes your status, explore various growth solutions, and how to apply the solutions in order to start swimming in a lasting prosperity. Using historical and real-life case studies, as well as natural and social economic indicators like habitat, employment, social media, street, religion, and poverty to logically proffer insightful solutions. Therefore, if you want to grow into prosperity irrespective of your past and present circumstances, this book is for you.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris UK
• Release date: Feb 2, 2022
• ISBN: 9781664117013

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until you prove yourself to be somebody very

valuable before you rest in peace (RIP).

Why Read This Book?

A must-read if you want a solution to your poverty

A must-read if you want to have financial freedom

A must-read if you want to live on top of your potential

A must-read if you want to serve your gift (or talent) to the world

A must-read if you want to free yourself from religious prison

A must-read if you want to learn from the billionaires

A must-read if you want to free yourself from natural and economic spells

A must-read if you want to be sellable in the marketplace

A must-read if you want to be a deployer of labour

A must-read if you want to leave a worthy legacy

for children and unborn generation

A must-read if you want to be successful and stand out in life

To my late father, Chief Kofoworola David Oduguwa;

my late brother Omolade Oduguwa; and my lovely,

caring, and hard-working saviour, Elena Puscasu, who

gave me the authority to exercise my power.

CONTENTS

Book Summary

Introduction

Chapter 1     Our Habitat is Big Enough

Chapter 2     You Cannot Migrate Away from Your Shadow

Chapter 3     Societal and Economy Problems

Chapter 4     Humans and Employment

Chapter 5     Man and The Religion Diagnosis

Chapter 6     The Social Media Addiction

Chapter 7     Human and The Psychostreet

Chapter 8     The Spell in Human Nature

Chapter 9     The Greatest Enemy of Man

Chapter 10   Poverty and Experts’ Recommendations

Chapter 11   Diagnostic Solution to Poverty

Chapter 12   Building a Generational Wealth System

Chapter 13   The Fable of Sellable People

Chapter 14   The Next Investment Boom

Chapter 15   The Billionaire Journey

Acknowledgements

Appendices

BOOK SUMMARY

This book is a non-fictional personal development blueprint that helps in proffering solutions to blind spots. The ideology of this book relies on the notion that we all have a poverty (financial, health, divorce, etc.) in our lives. Meanwhile, the best solution to poverty is to be conscious of it and develop yourself to the point of prosperity. Moreover, the process of growth into prosperity is determined by many factors that are within and outside our control. Those factors beyond our control we have no or little action we can do to mitigate the effect on us, but those factors within our control can effectively be utilised to our advantage. Unfortunately, many people are not aware about how to use the factors to free themselves from poverty. Fortunately, this book helps to diagnose your poverty status, give you awareness to various indicators that shape your status, explore various growth solutions, and determine how to apply the solutions in order to start swimming in a lasting prosperity, using historical and real-life case studies, as well as natural and social economic indicators like habitat, employment, social media, street, religion, and poverty to logically proffer insightful solutions. Therefore, if you want to grow into prosperity irrespective of your past and present circumstances, this book is for you.

Chapter 1: Our Habitat Is Big Enough

This chapter used the phrase ‘our habitat is big enough’ as a metaphor that we have all the resources to excel in life as raw material on our accommodating earth. It’s up to us to identify the raw material we want, extract, and refine to make our final product to sell in the marketplace. It does not matter your background, race, height, size, and colour. The earth is wealthy enough to bless you with the gifts you are worth. Everything we need to survive or triumph in life has already been created perfectly before our arrival on this innocent earth. The truth remains you have to think, seek, act, and continue to refine your mind in order to find the treasure that is hidden all over the curves of the earth.

Chapter 2: You Cannot Migrate Away from Your Shadow

This chapter explores how migration can be a driver to your success and also migration from one place to another might not necessarily be a way out of poverty. Sometimes, no matter how far you run, you cannot migrate away from your history; but you can surely delay or fasten your destiny. Meanwhile, migration is only one of the hundreds of thousand ways to survive, although many citizens of third-world countries think it is the ultimate route to success. The fact remains, the main route to success is you. Even when you run away to another country to look for greener pastures, it does not necessarily guarantee a way to prosperity. Vitally, life is too short; enjoy the most of it wherever you are to ensure your happiness. You have to learn to live in the present, make yourself an important figure wherever you reside at the moment, and learn how to create your own world even when your environment refuses to give you the best opportunities.

Chapter 3: Societal and Economy Problems

This chapter explores the relationship between society (individual or group) and economy (resources) problems. The problem arises when people do not seem to figure out how to be contented with their best. Then economic problems set in; we cannot completely eradicate economy problems. Surely, we can manage and reduce it to the barest minimum. Also, the chapter logically differentiates economic problem from economy problem. When you focus and improve your economy problem, your life will improve. Otherwise, when you pay too much attention on your economic problem, you will struggle to prosper as an individual. Finally, the chapter illustrates how you can personalise the basic microeconomic problems to create your product or service and serve it to the world.

Chapter 4: Humans and Employment

This chapter talks about the importance of academic education in terms of provision of jobs and mental development. It explain that academic education is very crucial. It gives you the key to open your eyes against any ignorance by equipping you with the search light to search for knowledge in books and other archival materials. Furthermore, the chapter explores more on how you can use your job (employment) to your advantage. I will suggest you start using your employment to your advantage by increasing your earning power every day. If you wildly apply the principle of earning power in your career, you will repeatedly be overvalued in your place of work; and in return, there come higher rewards. Otherwise, you will be undervalued and continue to be underpaid. Finally, the chapter will teach you how to buy your freedom from your employment.

Chapter 5: Man and the Religion Diagnosis

This chapter briefly explores how religion has impacted the world. It explains how much power and influence religion and its leaders have over their follower. The chapter further throws an open debate about religious colony and practices with statistical and non-fictional stories that portray how religious beliefs are making more benefits than harm and vice versa. Notably, the need for every individual to go on a quest for truth and thereby understand the reasons to follow a particular religion should be of great concern. Also, it should be of great benefit if individual followers can have a rethink to understand the limit to over-reliance on some religious leaders and the foundation of the truths that surround their religious practices. We should not be blinded to follow the crowd because they think that is the way to spiritual, health, and financial prosperities. In conclusion, the chapter urges readers to stand guard at the door of their mind and not allow religion to brainwash them by dumping some spiritual deceits and odium into their precious life on their daily survival.

Chapter 6: The Social Media Addiction

This chapter illustrates the power of phone, internet, and social media. It explains how we can use these technological innovations to promote our daily activities and solve personal and social problems. Vitally, the chapter suggests we should make the best out of the digital world, especially when investing a reasonable amount of money and time on our smartphone and online (internet). Notably, you can be a social media producer or super-producer and solve a problem that will help the world. Alternatively, if you choose to be a social media consumer, follow platforms or people that will impact your life positively, not time wasters or fake-life celebrities or social promoters. You need to think smart and use your phone and social media as a solution tool. You will be amazed with the amount of problems you can solve with the power of the internet.

Chapter 7: Human and the Psychostreet

Chapter 7 focuses on the power of the street. It logically explains how people don’t pay attention to the street they live. The street is very important in our lives. It is the street that helps you to connect to the world by taking the first step out of your door to meet with people that will help you make your dreams come true. The street is the live wire that aligns different houses and commercial centres together for them to become a village, town, city, megacity, and country. Also, it shows how the street can help you in your risk-taking tendencies. Without proper construction of the streets, a society will face difficulties; it differentiates many things such as the rich and poor neighbourhoods. It determines a safe area from deadly area; it determines your cost of living and financial status. More so, the chapter helps in proffering solutions to how you can use streets to your advantage and helps to prevent streets from taking advantage of you.

Chapter 8: The Spell in Human Nature

The chapter explains spells in terms of obsessions that push humans to do things in some certain ways. These spells are the most powerful forces that affect life quickly positively or negatively in this universe. These spells can be a man-made and natural obsession. If the spell just decides to smile at you, you are blessed forever, and you will become a first-class citizen of the more-than-enough world. The choice is yours to command your inner thought and programme your mind to take advantage of the positive and beneficial spells to favour you rather than drowning in the negative side of the spell that triggers faster in our innocent life than expected. The centrality of this ideology is that we are all obsessed to somethings, but it’s our choice to determine our artificial obsession. Then we can manage most natural spells in a certain way that will improve our ways of living.

Chapter 9: The Greatest Enemy of Man

This chapter uses a metaphor, ‘the greatest enemy of man’, to represent poverty. Poverty is seen as a horrible weaponless assassin that kills you long before you are dead. A curse that eats deeply into the marrow of your bone irrespective of your financial circumstances. The chapter identifies the definition and measurement of poverty misconception by international organisations and shows some continental numerical accounts of poverty forecasts. More so, institution and research organisation can define poverty in terms of some poverty index and geographical location by accounting for numbers of people in financial, health, and conflict-of-interest poverties. In conclusion, people or institutions can define poverty in the ways they want others to view it. In reality, poverty exists everywhere, and we all have one or more types of poverty we are dealing with.

Chapter 10: Poverty and Experts’ Recommendations

The chapter explores academic solutions to poverty by considering many factors that follow the conventional definition of and solution to poverty. It further raises a proposition that poverty is beyond academic assumptions. It depends on the situation a nation and person are facing. Beyond the mainstream poverty radar, poverty exists in every individual; it might be financial, health, career, religion, and relationship poverties. Therefore, we cannot just agree and rely on an academic solution to poverty. The need to search for a poverty-fighting tool that works on individual (micro) and national (macro) levels is mandatory. However, poverty is lack of innovation (knowledge or new ways of making things better) and funding the innovation at the appropriate time.

Chapter 11: Diagnostic Solution to Poverty

This chapter enlightens the reader on a different approach to poverty eradication. It emphasises that poverty is like a disease that requires tests in order to prescribe possible solutions. The only best way to successfully cure poverty injuries is when effective diagnostics take place. Otherwise, you will be deceiving yourself that you are making progress. The chapter introduces some pragmatic analogical tools that are secrets to solving poverty in any circumstances if logically tailored appropriately. Such important tools like the analogy of ultimate potential key, power of aggregate, blind spot theory, wealth motives, and the fisherman’s theory are used in applied and tailored ways of solving poverty through wealth creation.

Chapter 12: Building a Generational Wealth System

This chapter teaches how you can think and help yourself to generational wealth creation. The ideology behind this chapter is that the same way poverty can pass from one generation to another, so can wealth be passed from one generation to the next generation. Irrespective of the generational cycle you are presently in, you can put an end to it by re-creating history from your generation so that your and your next generation can enjoy a new era of wealth recycling. The chapter explains that there are some tools you can use to test and improve your wealth creation circumstances, such as gross domestic product personality, which helps you to carefully understand your GDPp status.

Chapter 13: The Fable of Sellable People

Chapter 13 introduces and explains a new phrase, ‘sellable people’, a term that might not be commonly used on many academic, research, and social platforms. It is an expression that reflects the characteristics of marketable and valuable people on earth and those who had passed through the face of the earth over the years. Sellable people might be people who have gotten to the peak of their potential and self-actualisation or undiscovered talents and skills. They can also be seen as legends, champions, and valuable assets in the marketplace. Furthermore, the chapter explains the opportunities untapped in the sellable people investment (SPI): how to discover the SPI in you, how to find a valuable SPI, how to monetise a valuable SPI, and how people can exploit these great opportunities while making the world a better place.

Chapter 14: The Next Investment Boom

Business and financial success depends greatly on knowing your customers and solving their problems. It becomes a money game strategy when you can serve in large numbers. This chapter narrates the investment opportunities in the ‘entrepre-poor’ and how investors can benefit in the overlooked profitable assets. Also, the chapter provides insight on a multi-billion-dollar investment opportunity that will change the face of the world by eradicating poverty and increasing the income generation of the brave investors. More so the investment of the entrepre-poor, a secret that remains unrevealed and resources that remain untapped. Entrepre-poor is a sellable people asset (investment) like raw material which can be transformed into numerous finished goods and services. For any investor or entrepreneur who wants to take advantage of these opportunities, you need to read this chapter to gain a thorough understanding of the benefits.

Chapter 15: The Billionaire Journey

The last chapter explains the billionaire journey, analysing the autobiographies of four hundred Forbes (2019) ranked billionaires. The chapter samples the first ten billionaires to deliver the message. The result depicts that the journey to become a millionaire, multimillionaire, and billionaire is not a game of luck, irrespective if the donor is a self-made or family made. It’s either the billionaire paid the price or the past generations give what it takes to pay for their luxurious life today. Also, maybe the billionaire commands respect and gives ways to everything money can buy while reshaping everything money can’t buy in a very tactful way. Thus, if you want to be wealthy, do what the wealthy people do. However, the universe is like a workshop, and people are like a craftsman. We all have the tool to craft what will make our lives better.

INTRODUCTION

When people hear the word poverty, they believe it’s something that can only be found in Africa, Asia, and some remote parts of the developed world. Perhaps it is important to examine our collective blind spots regarding the term poverty and its more wide-ranging synonym, lack. Moreover, the most common forms of poverty such as financial, health, and economic poverty are immensely important for their victims in the emerging countries. But poverty is present everywhere in the world. For many years, we have been misled with the notion that only a person who cannot afford her basic needs (food, clothing, and shelter) on a daily basis is the one victimised by abject poverty. You might be familiar with the widely researched assumption indicating that a nation where more than 80% of its population lives below the poverty line of $1.5–$2 per day is in servile poverty. Unfortunately, we are not collectively alert to the fact that any person or nation living below its potential is, in fact, living in poverty.

When seeking to define poverty, we must not become prey to our conceptual blind spots. We are all a victim of poverty in one way or another; for example, if you are a student who is always failing mathematics, it is perfectly reasonable to say you are in mathematical poverty. What if your marriage is a total failure? You are probably in marital poverty. Imagine if your health is in critical condition – are you not in a sort of health poverty? If you are not able to make enough money to meet your basic necessities, we can assume you are financially impoverished (i.e. financial poverty). What if you cannot find a job or you are in a job you do not like (under-paid, or somehow dissatisfactory)? You must be experiencing employment poverty. Moreover, a person blindly in thrall to misleading religious beliefs might be said to be religiously impoverished.

Despite our vigilance, poverty of one form or another is inevitable, except for those who have reached some abstract state of perfection. Meanwhile, we are all far away from being perfect. We can, however, minimise the impact of poverty on our lives by conscientiously managing our ‘poverty portfolio’. Seriously consider the following: if we die without sharing our gifts and insights, without helping and supporting mentees and the people around us with what wisdom we possess, we shall all have entered a state of poverty. Your personal solutions to unique problems will be lost to all. There have existed many numbers of individuals who proved their unique worth by virtue of their extraordinary deeds.

If Jesus did not live up to his potential by crucifixion, where would the faith and forgiveness of sins of Christians be today? If the prophet Muhammad did not live a legacy of exemplary leadership, where would the moral power of Muslims be today? If Abraham and Moses did not write the Ten Commandments and took their people from Egypt to Israel, where would the Jewish faith be today? If Buddha did not give up his luxurious palace life to seek wisdom through the power of enlightenment, how would the nirvana of Buddhists have been established? If Krishna did not evoke the mythology in supernatural wisdom, how would the trinitarian doctrine of the Hindu faith come into existence? If Confucius did not devote high levels of meditation to envisage the ‘golden rule’, how would the Confucians seek to treat others the way they would like to be treated? What if Zoroaster had not gone on to foresee the power of dualism – how would his followers be able to make decisions that prioritise good over evil?

If the great Albert Einstein had not been smart enough to attain the peak of his potential, where would scientific invention and creativity be today? Without Thomas Edison’s invention of the electric bulb, how would we light our homes today? If Adam Smith had not been brave enough to propound brilliant economic theories, such as the free market, and left his legacy in The Wealth of Nations, where would international trade be today? If John Maynard Keynes did not create social economic theories like the general theory of employment, interest, and money, what would be the state of economics today?

The list is endless. If Abraham Lincoln had allowed himself to live below his potential, nations would not be adopting the principle of ‘government of the people, by the people, and for the people’ (democracy) today. If Mahatma Gandhi did not sacrifice body and soul for freedom, where would India be today? If Nelson Mandela did not suffer imprisonment for twenty-seven years, what would the story of South African Apartheid be today? What if Mao Zedong did not devote twenty-five years of his life to transforming the agrarian heritage of China into an advanced economy? What would be the state of China’s innovative ideology today?

Without Tim Berners-Lee, and his invention of the internet, where would we be today? If Bill Gates had not given up many significant aspects of his time to invent Microsoft, what state would computing be in today? If Jeff Bezos had not lived up to his entrepreneurship potential, would we have Amazon today? If the young billionaire Mark Zuckerberg had not devoted his time to specialise in social media platform innovation, there would be no Facebook. If Warren Buffett had not lived up to his business investment potential, he would not be recognised as the most successful moneymaker and businessman of all time. If Marie Curie did not sacrifice a tremendous amount in her groundbreaking work on the understanding of physics and chemistry, especially radioactivity, she would not be the first female Nobel laureate.

Let me not flood this introduction with the names of people who lived, or are still living, at the peak of their potential. You probably know a lot more about these people than I do. Therefore, the question of the day is this: when you breathe your last and are planted like a seed within those six feet of the earth upon your death, how many people will quote or survive by your legacy? Leaving a legacy behind before you are gone is the best and only way to fight poverty and emptiness.

This thought compels me to relate the story of a talented young man, the third of his parents’ four boys. Their father was a farmer living in a small countryside village. They had worked for their father on the farm since childhood. Whenever their father delegated portions of land to the brothers to clear in preparation for planting (by hand, because they could not afford agricultural machinery), the third brother always finished last on account of his health issues and muscular weakness. Even his younger brother was far stronger than he was; he was always mocked and deemed a ‘lazy boy’. Academically, he was performing below expectations. Fortunately, he was able to secure admission into university and graduated with a degree in business administration but never worked as a businessman or administrator.

But he had one talent in which he was far superior to all his other siblings: his remarkable skill as an entertainer. His knack for learning lyrics was unbelievable – he didn’t have to listen to a song twice before he’d memorise them perfectly. His dancing and natural rhythm were a wonder to behold. His singing voice was utterly captivating. This young man was the consummate performer – virtually a human jukebox. He never abandoned his incredible musical talents, but he shared them only with his friends and family. He was unemployed for six years after graduation and often expressed longing for the life he wished to live (luxury travel, expensive houses, cars, watches, and the like), while engaging himself in menial jobs like fixing televisions and satellite dishes. Sadly, he died aged thirty-one.

After two weeks he was resurrected, announcing that he was supposed to die at the age of 110 years and needed to die as a beloved, universally acknowledged celebrity. It was a miracle that only Jesus Christ was capable of in the history of mankind. This ‘resurrection’, of course, occurred in the space of a dream. I woke from it crying like a child. The tears didn’t stop for half an hour. Why? The young man that died was my elder brother. I thought of him as my twin. He lived in pain, and with the visceral, profoundly unfair shame forced onto people with congenital disabilities throughout his entire life.

He asked me in that same dream, ‘What are you doing professionally at this point in your life?’

I replied, ‘I am working to help people attain their potential and taking people out of poverty by connecting the deficit sector (skilful and talented, but impoverished, individuals) to the surplus sector (people who possess the abundant resources to invest in others).’

He responded, ‘Never stop working on your calling. Continue with what you are doing.’ He told me of the many things he could have done with his unique talents but had not been brave enough to identify and pursue, given his qualms about his disabilities. He said he had been given the opportunity to go to another world (Ilu Teni-Teni – a land of contentment and fulfilment of potential), a place where people who died prematurely without finding their calling are given a second chance to do so.

In the dream I was crying, but he told me to stop and said to me, ‘Make sure you work hard so you do not end up like me.’ He left me with a picture of his starry icon, a posthumous portrait. Before I had finished looking at it, my brother disappeared without saying goodbye once again. Despite my tears, I managed to sketch out the portrait he showed me. See the pictures below in appendix 1.

After this moment, I promised myself to develop the best in myself by following my calling and dreams. This is one of the reasons I wrote this book. I want to reach billions of people to awaken the valuable potential in them. I would like them to be able to learn from the real-life revelation shown to me from the land of the dead. How many dreams have been buried in the graveyard? How many are ‘on ice’ in the mortuary? In order to avoid falling into the kingdom of ‘Had I known better?’ each of us must find our calling and be the solution to the problems we were created to solve in this universe. It is not a difficult task. When you are able to pass your potential onto at least one other person effectively, you have successfully transmitted (and increased) your value. At this point, you cannot be considered guilty of being a fruitless tree that gives nothing to the world.

This book is the best solution to human poverty and will help you to identify and find solutions to your known, and unknown, deficiencies. It will open your eyes by combining traditional and contemporary solutions to human problems. These might include financial, mental, societal, spiritual, and physical poverties. It will give life to your dead talent or skill by awakening your inner wealth. Wealth is variously interpreted by many different people, but whichever definition you choose, this book will guide you through your journey in a pragmatic way.

I congratulate you on making the best decision of your life in reading this book. The revelations contained within it afford the best available solutions to the widest range of poverties and will continue to transform millions of lives across the world. Thus, you might not be aware that there is a significant relationship between wealth (or poverty) and the street you live, religion you believe, social media you use, your mental thought of employment, and overall manipulation of habitats. Nevertheless, do not get caught unawares about the greatest investment the world has not discovered yet – the ‘entrepre-poor’. They are the sellable people investments that are ready to be refined into a profitable product in the marketplace. If you want to be part of the success story, this book will show you a step-by-step process of how to create wealth for yourself while you make the world a better place at the same time. Therefore, make sure you read and read every line of the mind-blowing sections in the book again, before you start applying the solutions to your life.

Welcome on board.

Have fun.

CHAPTER 1

Our Habitat is Big Enough

I vividly remember learning about ‘habitat’ in elementary science in junior high school. A subject that attracted and bewildered me in equal measure. I could not stop my enthusiastic imagination from running wild about the awe-inducing creation and sustenance of the different habitats in all the planets orchestrated beautifully in this cosmos. In particular, our beloved planet Earth is known for its ability to ensconce all possible forms of habitat: grasslands, temperate forest, tropical rain forest, deserts, polar ice, and tidepools, to name a few. The most wondrous aspect of it is the dynamics by which these habitats can effortlessly transform during different seasons. Equally miraculously, human beings are so adaptive in nature that they change quickly, seamlessly, and symbiotically.

For example, humans survive by breathing fresh air on land (terrestrial respiratory adaptations). On the part of creatures that live in the ocean, fishes are able to breathe comfortably under the water (aquatic respiratory adaptation). To a remarkable extent, any divergence in the changes unfolding in the various ecological and environmental systems affects every geographical area differently. The earth inexorably moves to impose certain limitations on plants and animals with regard to their biological survival. It is for this reason that humans cannot survive under water without artificial support, whereas fish cannot survive on land without water. Similarly, plants cannot survive in the absence of photosynthesis, water, and air.

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Source: Pixabay.com.

A picture of different beautiful habitats ranging from exotic

rain forests to dry deserts to blue arches of icebergs.

Briefly consider the range of our world’s habitable spheres, and you will realise the spectacular work of Mother Earth. I recently happened to watch a documentary about Antarctica. While doing so, I was ceaselessly appreciating the perfect architect, builder, and artist that is Mother Nature. The icebergs appeared ethereally beautiful on camera, a flotilla of flawless white-and-blue arches sculpted by wind and salt water. Despite the sublimity of nature, however, the survival of man is contingent on the atmospheric conditions that engulf him. On the other hand, animals like polar bears, sea lions, penguins, and whales can easily survive without any palpable inconvenience. The fact of the matter is that we cannot overemphasise how minutely the earth is designed to meet the need of every single creature.

To my mind, wherever nature plants the seed of your existence, not only does it not make any mistake; it also anticipates your concerns beforehand and makes allowances accordingly. The fact that you are a human born on land is suggestive of the fact that you are not intended to be constrained in any way in your pursuit of survival. Instead, it is an absolute blessing because it is the only habitat where all artificial machines and tools can be created to facilitate survival in all types of habitats. The terrestrial basis of human existence gives us the imaginative space to conceive of a life lived in the air (flight), underwater (submarines, aquatic research stations, and so on), and on land. Our brains, moreover, seem to be wired to generate the best possible ideas for survival in any given condition.

Before I continue my eulogy for the earth, take a deep breath and imagine the vastness of our cherished planet: think about all the continents, the oceans, the mysterious and beautiful animals, the flora – gorgeous trees, the exquisite flowers, and the verdant forests – and of course, the wonderful people that make up the human population. As you do that, it will become clear that our planet is large enough to facilitate your survival. Its many habitats have been in harmonious existence for millennia, uncomplainingly and compassionately accommodating Earth’s inhabitants. Our planet will continue to embrace every change – after all, it has nowhere to run to. Climate change, ecospheric collapse, ocean acidification, and loss of the biosphere – these are quite important potential changes that may not be harmoniously embraced by the tolerant earth. So the choice is yours to select the exact location you think is optimally suited for your survival and make it your permanent residence.

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Source: pixabay.com. A lovely hand of parents welcoming an

innocent baby to the world that is unknown to the newborn.

The great secret of habitat is birth: no matter how smart you are today; you can never choose the family or land you are born into. One day you are awakened from infantile thoughtlessness and discover yourself to be the bearer of your parents’ DNA. You accept a default racial designation dependent on their apparent status – black, white, Asian, African, European, aboriginal Australian, or First Nations. None of us have the option to choose our ancestral identities as we dive into this global habitat of superabundant resources.

It might be argued that planet Earth is the part of the universe uniquely designed to produce a viable habitat for human and animal reproduction given its cosmologically unusual atmospheric conditions. Historically, it was assumed that the universe had been in existence for billions of years – approximately 13.8 billion – while scientists suggest that Earth is approximately 4.54 billion years (Redd, 2014). Frustratingly, natural disasters like flooding and landslides (and even human interference with the environment related to poor urban planning, architectural works, and,