Metal

We use metal as a gas, as a liquid as a solid

Metal is a shiny thing, we shape it we do things with it. We make sickles, spades, ploughs, swords, bullets, bombs, ships, rockets, valves, bone parts, computers, cars, wires, engines, buildings, light bulbs, adornments, false teeth. Gosh, where to stop ? 

The production of metals is an industrialised and unnatural process. It is hostile to the natural world. It produces much poison in its extraction and manufacture. It is basically an enemy of sustainability, and yet... And yet it may have positivity to offer. It may be that through breakthroughs in the studies of material science that metal can be used to redeem the damages done to nature on a sufficient scale as to save life.

We use metal as communication

As outlined in the "about" page, computers have significant potential for control of planetary scale sustainability. The world of computers is largely phrased as the silicon world. Certainly metal is combined in form with silicon to make the computers of today, although that may be changing. The silicon world is proposed here as being part of the metal world and belongs therefore to the Element of Metal. 

Computerised communication is the global driver of production and delivery of materials. It is therefore also the major driver in pollution and thus a key tool of sustainability on a planetary scale. What it is that is communicated is then what we must examine as relates to the potential powers those communications have to halt damage and initiate repair.