rates of change

you are wary of an imminent "great change" because you hold that change
is continuous......on which everyone is agreed. but, strange to say, my
ideas are no more random, loose than yours. i quote from Hutchins
encyclopedia on "catastrophe theory" (not necessarily right or wromg) :
"catastrophe theory" developed by Rene Thom 1972, in which he showed
that the growth of an organism proceeds by a series of gradual changes that
are triggered by, and in turn trigger, large-scale changes or "catastrophic"
jumps...."....perfectly reasonaBLE, I SHOULD HAVE THOUGHT, CHANGE IS
CONTINUOUS BUT NOT STEADY....ANYWHERE? (caps again in error...i'm
80)

anyway, a "great change" such as i see us as undergoing as a species
precisely now is no great change cosmically, and not so great even
compared with what we know about the history of planet or our
species....?.....compare the working of metals, Bronze Age, etc.....i
see it in that sequence, only suddener because of our globalisation, etc.
also it will take generations to work through "on the ground"