Saving our world —- from under an oxygen mask

Never too small to save the world” is a much overused inspirational theme among those of us in the environmental movement seeking to inspire children to take up our cause.

And a base lie.

What we really mean to say, in an unconscious patronizing tone complete with a verbal pat on the head, is that no one is too small to HELP save the world, together, collectively, and with us big people/adults in charge.

While admittedly generally true, it also isn’t something likely to lift kids out of their seats, determined to commit their life to saving this planet regardless of the cost.

But my blog and Youtube channel is about  an actual someone very small and very weak who really did change our whole entire world, you and I and everyone else, for the better.

And did all this in the depths of the worst period in human history, did this from his literal death bed, while fighting off his own all-powerful wartime government ——and his own body —— just long enough to see it through.

In the process he inadvertently set in motion a process that shattered the then current historic epoch, which was about 500 years old in 1945.

(That epoch was a long period of very diverse human history, but united intellectually in agreeing how the Universe worked, a theory best called Alchemic Modernity.)

That break-up process led to our present day Post-Modernity world, which I prefer to call Diverse Modernity.

Sometimes truth is indeed stranger than anything Hollywood would dare put on the screen and this story of Martin Henry Dawson and the first Manhattan Project is one of those times.

I am old, like all of us in the first wave of the environmental movement, and we will not be around to see the battle won, if indeed it is won and not tragically lost.

That job must be done by the very young : not our children, but by our grandchildren.

So my intended audience for this blog and the Youtube channel is environmental-responsible grandparents and parents who want to stop giving children tired platitudes about being never too small and instead back it up with a concrete example of someone very small and very weak who took on virtually the world world and turned it around, literally from his death bed.

This then is the untold story of NATURAL penicillin : the penicillin of hope....