Life on Earth’ (Past, Present & Future)
(From a Revolutionary-Humanist & Giaia-centric Perpective)

The above heading is the title of a book I have written and will soon be published. The back cover of the book bears the following blurb.

“Of all the millions of species of life that have existed on earth over billions of years of cellular and multi-cellular evolution, only the members of one species has consciously and systematically done the following.

Over-polluted, seas, lakes, rivers, air, top-soil and land in general.
Destroyed – on a huge-scale, members of its own species.
Dismembered on a massive scale, members of many other species (forests, animals, insects, fish).
Elevated a minority of its own species  to live in obscene luxury.
Relegated huge numbers of its own species (male and particularly female) to low and subordinate status.
Have  attained  the most profound amounts of knowledge.

However, it is only in the last five or six thousand years, out of the 500,000 plus years of hominid and Homo sapien evolution, that the human species began to initiate such actions and only in the Middle/Near East and Europe.

Until then, the rest of the planet remained populated by humans but largely unpolluted and ecologically undisturbed, by them.  Now in the 21st century every corner, every height and every depth of the earth’s biosphere is extremely polluted and ecologically and climatically imbalanced.

In exploring the main species categories of life on earth, this book is intended for those who are puzzled by how in one relatively short period of human evolution their activities  resulted in the six characteristics listed above. The book will also be of interest to those who have begun to consider what can be done to halt and even reverse those unnatural  symptoms.”

Apart from a preface and introduction, the book contains the following chapters;

Chapter 1.  The inorganic elements of life on earth.
Chapter 2.  Cells. Bio-chemical (organic) beginnings.
Chapter 3.  The inorganic/organic composition of Soil.
Chapter 4.  Plant and photosynthetic  organisms.
Chapter 5.  Insect Organisms.
Chapter 6.  Animal Organisms.
Chapter 7.  The social evolution of Hominid life.
Chapter 8.  The social evolution of  Homo  Sapiens.
Chapter 9.  Hierarchical Mass Societies.
Chapter 10. Hierarchical mass society reflected in ideology.
CONCLUSION.

This book offers a genuine revolutionary perspective in that it starts from the following propositions that;

“Hitherto, ‘life on earth’ in general has always been studied from the particular perspective of humanity. The study of humanity from the general perspective of life on earth, has hardly begun.”

This book is the authors contribution to redressing that historic and devastating imbalance.

It can be obtained in ebook form from Amazon at £2.99 or later in paper back book form to be announced.

Roy Ratcliffe (November 2025)