The Origin of Mass Extinction
How Mother Earth can be destroyed — an energy perspective on why mass extinction occurs.
Are We and Soil The Same? — A Modeling Perspective of Soil Carbon Accrual and Weight Gain
After all, we and Mother Nature come from the same life force.
Post-script of “What Really Are We? The Story of the Fast-opportunist and Slow-Stratgist”
Thanks for reaching the very end of this trilogy! 😉 I want to briefly mention that, having r-strategists in an ecosystem is natural and not inherently “evil”, no matter how badly you might think of them after reading my article. They only become a problem when they are “quantitatively” out of balance. In fact, fast …
Part 3 of The Descent and Ascent of Humanity — Evolution and Collapse: What Really Are We? The Story of the Fast-Opportunist and Slow-Strategist
Who are we? — Understanding ourselves in ecological terms and what it means to our fate.
Part 2 of The Descent and Ascent of Humanity — Evolution and Collapse: Slow Down, Humans
Speed underpins every phenomenon of our Universe, and our problems too.
Post-script on the implication of “Have outdated moral guidelines hijacked our evolution?”
The notion that we ought to aim for a good relationship and maintain a good state of Mother Nature might of course trigger unease in some. The point is not to propose we need to give up everything for a better Mother Nature (as with the logic in hardcore consequentialism, as well as the “us vs. them” paradigm)…
Part-1 of The Descent and Ascent of Humanity – Evolution and Collapse: Have Outdated Moral Guidelines Hijacked our Evolution?
The view that “bad” culture/beliefs underlie environmental problems is not new in environmental stuides. But how exactly is it effected? What is our Achilles’ heel that is holding us back? Anthropocentric morality may be so.