"An affected eucalypt forest in the Helena National Park is visible in this Copernicus Sentinel-2 image acquired on 20 April 2024." See: https://www.copernicus.eu/en/media/image-day-gallery/australian-eucalypt-forests-impacted-drought In April 2011, I wrote about this form of "ethical dieback" when living in Jarrahdale, right in the middle of a huge dieback event in the Darling Ranges of SW Western Australia. … Continue reading Solastalgia for the Jarrah Forest
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Positive and Negative Earth Emotions
Transformation to the Symbiocene
Topowokia
Toponesia is the process of forgetfulness of precious places, which afflicts us as we leave the world of our childhood and enter adult life (Heneghan 2013). Topowokia is the process of remembering precious places as our memories are reminded by photographs, smells, objects and a myriad things that return a loved place to the the … Continue reading Topowokia
Transformation to The Symbiocene
IMG_1895 Transformation to The Symbiocene: The Frederik van Eeden Lecture, 2024. An account of the book Earth Emotions published in Dutch as Aarde Emotes by Noordoek Publishers in early April 2024. Glenn A Albrecht PhD Abstract The book, Earth Emotions, is an account of the relationship between the state of the Earth and our mental and emotional … Continue reading Transformation to The Symbiocene
Viral DNA, Symbiosis and Being Nature Positive
We can all agree that humans must live in a “nature positive” way in order to continue to live well on this rare of all planets, one that sustains life. To assert the opposite, and deliberately live in a “nature negative” way, is to invite ecocide on a massive scale. We can also all agree … Continue reading Viral DNA, Symbiosis and Being Nature Positive
Sumbiotecture
To design and build according to Symbiocene principles, sumbiocentric thinking, symbiomimicry and the discipline of sumbiology, (sumbios: living together and techne: to build). The archi in architecture means to rule or to command … it has to go. To design and build with others (human and non-human) for the purpose of harmoniously living together. We used to … Continue reading Sumbiotecture
Identitycide
Mainly self-imposed, but also externally influenced, identitycide is the loss of one's personal identity by the algorithms of social media, the machinations of parasitic AI, traditional advertising and a fake news media. The body remains, but personal identity as continuity of memory in time and space, has been erased or "killed". While identicide is focussed … Continue reading Identitycide
Indigenocene
The Indigenocene There was a period in human history on planet Earth when humans were well integrated with the rest of life and the major elements, earth, wind, fire and water. As a relatively newly evolved species, they really had no choice, as all these elements predated them by millions of years. It was a … Continue reading Indigenocene
The Symbiocene: Origins
Thursday, 19 May 2011 Symbiocene Many are now suggesting that we should rename this period on earth as the Anthropocene. This era could be called the Obscene, not the Anthropocene. I for one, a human, do not wish to be associated with a period in Earth's history where the dominant people in one species, wipe … Continue reading The Symbiocene: Origins
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