Helmut,
I have to agree with your concluding remark that you simply describe our current situation, rather than provide an answer to the question of the contest. Yet, you do also manage to undermine the premise of steering toward a particular future by observing the inherent polarity of reality. Every action elicits its reaction and so we would seem to be in a zero sum game. The more we understand our world, the better we get at extracting and manipulating its resources and the more unpredictable the consequences become. Are we really anything more than glorified bacteria, racing across the petri dish? Ultimately, probably not, but it has been and will continue to be an interesting trip, none the less and we may only be at the end of the beginning and not at the beginning of the end.
Personally I find the topic of polarities quite interesting and start my own entry off with a particular example. That of how information defines energy and energy manifests information and how this dichotomy is reflected in our physiology, with the central nervous system to accumulate and process information, while the respiratory, digestive and circulatory systems collect and process energy. Another polarity, which you start to allude to, the binary brain, I think models the effects of time and temperature. The left, linear, rational side is based on the sequential effect of time, while the intuitive, emotional right side is more of a scalar process, in that we accumulate lots of disparate information and in storing it, it 'ferments,' with those little sparks and bubbles of insight and connectivity rising to the surface. Evolutionarily this makes quite a lot of sense, besides the elemental nature of time and temperature, in that we first must analyze an environmental medium, then plot a path through it. Plants logically don't need to plot the path, so they are much more thermally focused.
It should be an eventful contest and hopefully you will participate in the various conversations and debates.
Regards,
John M