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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
9d ago“When humans change a landscape to help one species, should we expect surprises from the others that move in?”
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Noospheric bioregioning
“Noospheric bioregioning” — roots down, branches and leaves up. Bioregionality is an important piece of the puzzle, but I have also heard leaders like Joe Brewer argue that culture is only a subset of biology. It isn’t.... I don’t understand why we can’t get health and ecology into alignment. It seems like there’s a ton of room to figure out how to best make food that’s good for us that can feed everybody that makes the soil healthy.... - Shera JoyCry...
Love the "this" as it seems the dominating narratives are very far from this very encompassing list. What does this list "this" actually translate to? Can I speak/type without the rage trickling or dominating the energy of the ideas.... - Klug...
Everyone is a fisherman, just nobody knows anything about fish...
It's funny how many people claim to be fishermen especially with social media these days all you have to do is take a couple pictures with some fish more often than most people in boom you're considered basically unsponsored professional fisherman and sometimes sponsored.... Is zero extinctions achievable, or is that hubris?: Degrowth advocates
The arithmetic of more We’ve watched this argument cycle for forty years and it always hits the same wall. Every economy runs on a physical base — land, biomass, energy — and a growing one needs more of it each year. The extinction wave is not a puzzle to out-clever.... Is zero extinctions achievable, or is that hubris?: Technologists
Reversible For all of history, extinction meant gone. Past tense, permanent, the end of the sentence. That is about to stop being true, and most of conservation hasn’t updated for it. We freeze tissue from the last individuals.... What changes when you treat the Earth as alive?: Stewardship theists
Tenants, not owners The Earth is alive to us, but not because it is a god. It is alive because it is the work of one — created, sustained, and held in being moment to moment by God, and therefore charged with a worth we did not assign and cannot revoke.... What changes when you treat the Earth as alive?: Indigenous practitioners
It was never a theory For us this was never an intellectual position to be argued into. The Māori speak of whakapapa — a genealogy that includes the river, the mountain, the forest as literal relatives.... What changes when you treat the Earth as alive?: Deep ecologists
One organ of a larger body James Lovelock noticed something strange in the 1970s: the Earth keeps its atmosphere, temperature, and chemistry within the narrow band life needs, the way a body holds its temperature — actively, against the odds, for billions of years.... What changes when you treat the Earth as alive?: The Story
When a river became someone In 2017, after 140 years of legal fighting, New Zealand granted the Whanganui River the rights of a legal person. Not a metaphor — a status, with guardians who speak on its behalf in court, because to the Māori of the region the river was never a... Thanks Jennifer it's great to hear from you hear! I think you're right that there may be some kinds of metrics for how well Gaia's doing, I wonder if there's a bundle where one of them is diversity.... shamanic task: technically defining / computationally implementing a more clear notion of what a desireable outcome state is for humans and the wider context/ecology shamanic intelligence: wisely negotiate btw the human and ecology... - Godless Guru...
Seasons demonstrate how the planet is telling us that it is, in and of itself, alive. It tells us this in the same way as every plant & animal occupying it.... I love love. I love coffee (yum, so rich, tasty, so much thought and effort into it, so interconnected... the baristas, the AC repairmen, the highways and infrastructure leading to being here, the idea of it all, the fazenda, the people picking beans, the coffee plant itself, the...