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 …

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 …

Eutopia and the Symbiocene

Utopia = no place, derived from the Greek: οὐ (“not”) and τόπος (topos or place). Eutopia = good place, derived from 'eu' meaning good.

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 …

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 …

Symbiocene Principles

In what I hope will be a relatively short period of time (perhaps decades), there will be a point in human social development where almost every element of human culture, habitat and technology will be seamlessly re-integrated back into life cycles and processes. In order to get to that preferred state of living, I suggest …

Solastalgia in the Anthropocene and the Ghedeist in the Symbiocene

  Abstract The Anthropocene epoch is based on the evidence of dominance of human affairs over all natural processes at a planetary scale. It is also characterised by countless biocidal catastrophes worldwide with mass bee death by insecticides just one that has received world-wide attention. Those sensitive to the scope and scale of these insults …

Terraphthora and Terranascia

Terraphthora (earth destroyer)  (tera for ra) (Terra, from the Latin “earth”, the Greek φθορά (phthorá) or “destruction”). Terranascia  (earth creator) (tera nas cia) (Terra, from the Latin “earth” and the Latin nātūra, “to be born”). The conflict between terraphthora and terranascia is now global. Terraphthorans are now destroying the earth within the Anthropocene. Terranascient humans will live symbiotically with the rest of life in the Symbiocene. From Earth …