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 …

Eutopia* and Euthanasia** for Boomers

"There are many more elements to the Symbiocene hierarchy, however, I consider the development of the detail of all this work in applying the Symbiocene principles ... to be the task of those with the necessary specific skills and capabilities. Many of the people with these skills are Baby Boomers, and it is my hope …

Growth in The Sumbonomy

As the economy undergoes de-growth ... the sumbonomy undergoes pro-growth. My work is pro-growth. However, it is not pro-parasitic or terraphthoric (earth destroying) growth which is tierracide (Earth murder). It is the negation of the above and its re-placement with a form of growth that is consistent with symbiosis, a foundation of life on Earth …

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 …

Unsafe Psychoterratic Spaces

"The combined collapse of biophysical, cultural, and economic systems will have profound implications for the human psyche. Indeed, the pressure already put on our ecology and the climate has exerted stress on many people worldwide as climate chaos, extreme weather, radically altered landscapes, and various forms of pollution hit hard. Within a period of earth …

Covid-19 and Capit-22: Going Viral.

A building at Paris International Airport, Corona architecture. Image by author. Humans have always contemplated the importance of the invisible in nature. To account for the invisible influences of the Earth and its cosmos, humans have invented ‘forces’ to explain their impacts. Spirit forces, even God(s) might be human inventions to help us understand the …

Our Prime Minister/President Hates His/Her Own Children

It seems that most of the current crop of politicians in the world could not give a crap for their own children to flourish. They could not even give a fart for their grandchildren to be secure. Is this lack of care for the future a new human pathological norm? Or is it temporary insanity …

Generation Symbiocene and Deep Mitigation

I have created the meme of the Symbiocene as a counter to the age of solastalgia within the Anthropocene. The Symbiocene offers the prospect of deep mitigation of the causes of global warming and species extinction. The foundations of this idea can be found in my essay Exiting the Anthropocene and Entering the Symbiocene In …

detitanise

The act of confronting those people, institutions and corporations that have become too large and powerful to be in the public, community or global interest. The confrontation results in the transfer of titanic power and its re-incorporation into intensely democratic and sumbiocratic decision-making structures at local and sumbioregional levels. In the Symbiocene the Titans will have …

Ecology is a Problem!

Perhaps one of the initial important tasks of the discipline of sumbiology is to complete the critique of Anthropocene category mistakes. In particular, the concept of the “environment” must be removed from our thinking. However, another concept that must be critiqued is the concept of “ecology” and the related idea of an “ecosystem”. A sumbiology-based …