about dozen years ago, chemists actually checked if you unravel the DNA in a dish without a cell, how does it replicate?
for - DNA replication experiment - in vitro - lots of errors - 1/10,000 pairs error rate - our genomes 3 billion base pairs long each - so 300,000 errors - would be fatal to any cell
It was actually Shreddinger who formulated that idea way back in 1942 when he wrote a book called what is life?
for - book - What is Life? Schrodinger - formulated the idea behind the central dogma of molecular biology
Francis Crick had formulated what he called the central dogma of molecular biology
for - definition - The central dogma of molecular biology \ - our genes generate proteins - proteins form bodily structures - everything within our body can therefore be predicted from the level of the DNA
the teological sin
for - definition - the teological sin - biological systems aren't suppose to have agency!
I was faced in 1958 when I started graduate study at University College London with that extraordinary fact. Nobody knew how it could be that a muscle could excite itself to be rhythmic.
for - history - Denis Noble - 1958 - question - heartbeat of embryo - how? no nervous system yet.
The first heartbeat in an animal as complicated as us occurs after about 28 days of an embryo
for - embryo - 28 days - first circulation system - why? CO2 and O2 diffuse over distances of a few microns - at 28 days, the embryo is about 30mm so needs a circulatory system to diffuse CO2 and O2
for - Denis Noble - youtube - interview - Denis Noble - We're stuck in a DNA dogma
in your latest book that you wrote with your brother brother Raymond Noble living system
for - book - Understanding Living Systems - Denis and Raymond Noble - to - book - Understanding Living Systems - Denis and Raymond Noble - https://hyp.is/M7xm0NeMEfCqc2PC5Mwj2A/dokumen.pub/understanding-living-systems-9781009277365-9781009277396.html
Understanding Living Systems
for - book - Understanding Living Systems -o Denis and Raymond Noble - from - youtube - Denis Noble - interview - We're stuck in a DNA dogma - https://hyp.is/gWe8MteLEfCpKr-k4niKcg/www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAPhBt8VJCM
In contrast to the traditional focus on the individual organism as the target of selection and the unit of evolution, the genetic information embodied by each of our microbiomes may itself be the target for and the product of the evolutionary process.
for - unpack - microbiome as the target for / product of evolution
The collective microbial genome in our gut may include 100-fold more genetic information than what can be found in our own eukaryotic cells.
for - trivia - microbiome - 100x more genetic information here than our other body cells -meme - most of the genetic information inside you is not really you
bacteria engage in extensive horizontal gene transfer
for - definition - horizontal gene transfer - genetic material transfer across species boundaries
efficient removal of potentially toxic by-products of metabolism, and provides a homeostatic environment for bacterial growth
for - microbiome - functions - efficient removal of toxic byproducts of metabolism - homestatic environment for(beneficial) bacterial growth
Marked differences between one human microbiome and the next suggest that no single bacterial species must always be present in the gut—or in any other body environment—to ensure a working microbiome.
for - microbiome - keystone ROLES - no keystone species - can vary from person to person
keystone roles
for - keystone roles vs keystone species - microbiome
keystone species
for - definition - keystone microbiome species - critical species that, if removed, can engender collapse of the entire microbiome system
microbiome is clearly linked to the maturation and regulation of the human immune system,
for - adjacency - human microbiome - immune system
the passage through the birth canal seeds the newborn’s microbiome. Infants delivered by cesarean section, in contrast, exhibit a distinct microbiome that more closely resembles the composition of the mother’s skin
for - trivia - birth - microbiome - natural childbirth vs cesarean - birth canal seeds newborn's microbiome. Cesarean section alters it - microbiome more like mother's skin!
nstead, such perturbed ecosystems may settle on a new composition that includes different species, many of them resistant to antibiotic treatment.
for - progress trap - long term antibiotic use - can create new composition of microbiome with species resistant to antibiotic treatment
the Human Microbiome Project
for - The Human Microbiome Project - progress trap - antibiotics - severely disrupts the microbiome (Human Microbiome Project)
microbiomics
for - definition - microbiomics - the study of the multiple microbial ecosystems that constitute the (human) bidy
Can our social evolution save us from the path of our social evolution that began 10 000 years ago?
for - question - evolution - can our social evolution save us - from the path of our social evolution that began 10,000 years ago?
Let me reiterate, global capitalism is the legacy of the agricultural system.
for - relationship - agriculture - is the parent - of global capitalism - It (global capitalism) is an elaboration of the agricultural system. - Surplus and expansion and - profound, almost mechanistic, interdependency in material life, and - duality in the human relationship to the more-than-human world - became the order of the day beginning with grain agriculture. - The basic structure and dynamic of the agricultural system were subsequently extended with elaborations that have eventually led to global capitalism.
division of labour creates ‘a built-in enforcer for cooperation
for - agriculture - division of labor - enforcer of cooperation
No humans are superorganisms in the way insects are, but some insect species and most of humanity became economic superorganisms when they engaged agriculture.
for - economic superorganism - human species qualifies
The term 'economic superorganism' is not to be interpreted as biological
for - definition - economic superorganism - The cohesive whole brought about by agriculture and the architecture that underlies it. Not to be interpreted as biological. - Used more in the sense of Henrich (economic superorganism) which refers to the structure and dynamic in cooperative material life particular to agriculture - NOT used in the strictly biological sense of E.O. Wilson, Holldobler
Humans are now organized in a global economic system that is difficult to alter in meaningful ways
for - insight - polycrisis - agricultural system - agriculture-based economic system - difficult to halt
All engage positive feedback loops that are expansive. That process can be understood for humans in this way
for - agriculture - expansiveness - description - Nice description!
Global capitalism can be considered ‘a system within a system’ in the sense that it models the agricultural system in its structure and dynamic
for comparison - agriculture - capitalism - one is the parent, the other is the uncontrolled offspring
for - economic superorganism
SRC comment - This paper is so eloquently written! Reading it, one really senses the enormous impact that agriculture has had on the cultural evolution of our species, so much so that we think of it as natural and absolute, rather than relative. - We did not have to be on the cultural trajectory we are now on, all made possible through the dependency on agriculture, the culture of plants.
James C. Scott tell us that humans were ‘disciplined and subordinated to the metronome of our own crops …. Once Homo sapiens took that fateful step into agriculture, our species entered an austere monastery whose task master was mostly the genetic clockwork of a few plants
for - origins - agriculture - beautiful description - our dependency on agriculture changed our sense of time!
In fact, by the time humans began the practice of cultivation of annual grains the total human population on Earth stood at around 6–10 million people. One might say that hunting and gathering is an energetically contained system and not an energetically expansionary system.
for - comparison - hunter gatherer vs agricultural - energetically contained vs energetically expansionary - stats - hunter -gatherer humans - population before agriculture - 6 to 10 million people.
There is no place where this cultural hubris is more evident than with the discourse on our present war between economy and Earth.
for - economic system vs cultural change - hubris - The global economic system at play is bringing about - the sixth mass extinction and - unmitigated climate change - and we continue to tinker around the edges of altering its structure and dynamic in any significant way. - One could easily make the claim that - it is the global economic system that has the upper hand - and not our capacity for cultural change.
Once humans attained culture, the pressure on genetic change is less significant and adaptation can take place through the flexibility afforded through cultural change.
for - key insight - culture - adaption through culture, not genes - SRG comment - danger is progress traps! - This is a key insight. Once we have sophisticated culture, we don't rely on slow moving genetic change to adapt anymore. Instead we rely on culture! - This is the world of human progress, but is also a dangerous one because progress (cultural adaptation to environmental pressures) comes with progress traps.
In the longer run, genes are evolving to adapt to these culturally constructed worlds
for - quote - genes evolve to adapt to culture - Joseph Henrich - in the longer run, genes are evolving to adap to these culturally constructed worlds
The evolution of the capacity for culture was an evolutionary transition just as the evolution of the superorganism was an evolutionary transition in insects.
for - comparison - culture vs superorganism
it acts much like genetic change, only quicker
for - progress traps - why it happens - culture evolves much faster that genes
Herbert Gintis
for - quote - gene-culture co-evolution - Herbert Gintis We are the species that we are because … genes provide individuals with the capacities and incentives to transform culture, and culture guides the transformation of the gene pool from generation to generation
Humans have a unique ability for building and expanding on previous knowledge, adding to the cumulative cultural endowment.
for - human superpower - timebinding
gene–culture coevolution
for - gene-culture coevolution
Culture makes possible modern complex societies where technological advancement is cumulative and extensive cooperation occurs among people who are not related.
for - superorganism - human - insight - culture - culture makes possible modern complex societies where cooperation between strangers is enabled. - money does this! transactional. no need to know who you transact with.
This type of extreme sociality does not occur in humans, so humans do not attain the status of a superorganism
for - superorganism - humans? no - extreme sociality doesn't occur
The superorganism is a form of extreme sociality and cooperation
for - superorganism - characterized by extreme sociality and cooperation in insect world, for example.
he basic elements of the superorganism are not cells and tissues but closely cooperating animals
for - quote - the basic elements of the superorganism are not cells and tissues but closely cooperating animals - E.O. Wilson & Holldobler
We do not fully understand yet the complex causal mechanisms between how something happens in one person's mind moves through neural networks then moves through social ecological networks um and actually may create change in entire sector or give rise to systems
for - anthropocene - signalling - intrabrain - interbrain - SRG comment - individual / collective gestalt - SRG comment - how information flows from one brain to another - networked language!
Christopher Broom's work on in hierarchy in the forest
for - book - Hierarchy in the Forest - shared struggle against inequality - the most important part of human heritage, intelligence and history - SRG comment - recognizing the sacred in all beings - adjacent to Michel Bauwens and the oscillation of the commons - to - book - publisher's page - Hierarchy in the Forest - The Evolution of Egalitarianism - 2001 - Christopher Boehm - https://hyp.is/_w4TEtZoEfCcjmPIvOEOaQ/www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674006911
book Goliath's Curse, the history and future of societal collapse
for - to - book - Goliath's Curse: the History and Future of Societal Collapse - Luke Kemp
democracy can basically help save the world. That the use of things like citizen assemblies and citizens juries would lead to far better governance outcomes.
for - citizen assemblies & juries - lead to better governance outcomes - can save the world
Edward Tellella, another physicist, had naughty calculation that there's a nonzero chance that detonating the bomb would ignite the entire atmosphere of Earth, killing not just all humans, but every single shred of life. By that time, the US also knew that the Nazis were no longer capable of making the bomb nor even pursuing their own project anymore. They still went ahead and took the risk.
for - progress trap - technology - nuclear - psychopathic behavior - Edward Teller calculation - decision to go ahead anyways!
killing large groups of people who often at the prime of their working age means suddenly you're losing often decades or centuries of working hours as well. In every single case, it's a wasteful use of energy. Conspicuous consumption or as a way of saying I am more important than you. I have higher status than you do.
for - status competition - conspicuous consumption - war - waste in general
boardrooms and parliaments, it's somewhere between 3 to 21%. Now, again, numbers are very disputed
for - stats - psychopathy - 3 to 21% in boardrooms and parliaments - more likely to find psychopath in boardroom and parliament than grocery store - SRG comment - stats- shadow side of leadership - high percentage of leaders have dark triad
the dark triad
for - definition - dark triad - Narcissism (grandiosity, entitlement, self-adoration), - Machiavellianism (manipulative, strategic self-interest, callousness), and - Psychopathy (impulsivity, lack of empathy/remorse, antisocial behavior). - SRG comment - dark triad - useful for Deep Humanity profile
And why does this happen? How do we have such a huge shift in human social relations? One of the big reasons is status competition
for - reason for - social shift - from egalitarianism - to power hierarchy - status competition - SRG comment - Goliath's Curse - status competition - Deep Humanity antidote
Some call it civilization, I prefer to call Goliath.
for - definition - Goliath - the anthropological shift from egalitarianism to power hierarchy over the holocene - to - book publisher's page - Goliath's Curse - Luke Kemp - from - youtube - The Anthropocene Paradigm Shift
optimal foraging theory
for - definition - optimal foraging theory - our ancestors minimized energy expended for gathering food and maximized leisure time
we also need know that when you start pushing systems you will get a resistance and right now we talk about a transformation backlash in the in in the research
for - definition - transformation backlash - resistance experienced when pushing against an existing system - progress trap - polycrisis - climate crisis - transformation backlash
we need to educate general practitioners, not just specialists, right? We need to to look at the anthroposine geoysiology and say, okay, we need some GPS for anthroposine geoysiology.
for - metaphor - medical - anthropocene - beyond experts, we need GPs for Anthropocene geophysiology - SRG comment - Is SRG GP for anthropocene?
I think we need to concentrate more on the feedbacks between all of those nodes than on the nodes themselves. And that's tough because I might be an expert on one of those nodes and you might be an expert on one of the other nodes. And and it's not that that's needed. It's the feedbacks between the nodes.
for - wicked problems - feedback between nodes is the priority - wicked problems - SRG comment - feedback between nodes - indicates progress traps COLLECCT ecosystem design
one of the things that I find really interesting that's not talked about very much is the impacts of nitrogen fixing and the production of artificial fertilizers which contributed to the number one issue which is human population growth
for - progress trap - nitrogen for fertilizers - anthropocene research - releases lots of methane - climate crisis - leverage point - replacing nitrogen fertilizers
deeply problematic which is based on this idea of technological substitution and which does not feed the facts of the material growth of everything despite all the innovations.
for - green growth - still continues MATERIAL growth
this idea of backstop technology was taken up by all sorts of neocclassical economies to talk about climate change and it start with this hypothesis there is a back stop technology which is a zero emitting uh technology which is available at a certain price and then of course all the models is about you know how can we make this technology appear quicklier.
for - climate crisis - green growth- illusion?
I'm currently curating an exhibition on planetary health and that's exactly this big challenge to get this planetary big abstract concept >> into parts that are digestible for the public and that are like that they can really feel it or can connect to it and I think that's also a very big challenge
for - museum - planetary health - communications - big challenge
there's still so many people outside who just don't know or it's so abstract to them this big dimension. I'm and in the I'm working in a museum
for - climate communications - difficulty of communicating anthropocene - SRG comment - climate crisis as hyperobject - apply Deep Humanity for impactful climate education
we don't have leverage to uh counter what um John Baptist was and talking about at the end the more and more and more
for - infinite economic growth - more more more - climate crisis - infinite growth of capitalism problem - antidote - targeted degrowth
energy forecasting from uh from the most expert institution like the uh international energy agency, well, they don't see any energy transition coming and it shouldn't be a surprise because energy transition is a radically strange notion,
for - climate crisis - energy transition - IEA - none coming - old energy forms still persist
At the beginning of the 20th century most of the people would use petrol petroleum lamps to produce light kerosene lamps and of course then came electrification and electricity made kerosene lamps obsolid. Nevertheless, during the 20th century, we are burning more and more oil to produce light. And today, just the the headlights of the automobiles burn more oil than the whole economy, the whole world economy did in the early 20th century
for - stats - fossil fuels - kerosene lamps at beginning of 20th century for lighting - today more oil to produce electricity for lighting SRG comment - climate crisis - science communication - TPF - contact - Fabian Will
Now compare that for instance with another kind of biologically built structure where we're getting comparable amounts of morphological change of morphos species or technos species uh uh you know which have developed just over a few decades
for - stats - speed - cultural (technological) evolution - cell phone - 35 years to touchscreen phones - comparison - speed of cultural vs biological evolution - progress trap
what we've done since then uh uh is to increase the number of crystalline inorganic compounds that is minerals in every but formal sense at the earth's surface um uh by orders of magnitude so now more than 300,000 most of those have been made since 1950
for - stats - minerals - since 1950, 300,000 new minerals - only 5,000 up til modernity - planetary boundary - novel entities
life comes in and not very much happens until life decides to excrete oxygen into the atmosphere when you get a whole raft of hydroxides and hydrox oxides and hydroxides coming in
for - geology - history - minerals - when life starts excreting oxygen - many new minerals - planetary boundary novel entities boundary
Why is accumulation linked to success and power? And will there be ways to escape that vicious circle?
for - greed - game A - linked to success - can we escape from game A? - SRG comment - accumulation perspective of capitalism - climate crisis - Deep Humanity interventions
reflect on the pluralities and the tensions related to time and space in the social relations to the earth system from the local to the planetary scale.
for - humanities - planetary boundaries - social system tensions - from local to planetary scales - terminology - local to planetary scale
the economy should be embedded into the nature.
for - ecological civilization - economy should be embed into nature
ECO comes from the Greek root Oikos - for managing the home
to - David Suzuki talk on interconnectedness - air example
they have a kind of society transformation not just one sector including actually value
for - ecological civilization - value transformation as well
leaders took up this idea and not from Chinese researchers from Chinese leaders political leaders that's also something unique because we we know the system is such that many Chinese leaders are scientists and engineers compared to other politic systems.
for - ecological civilization - chinese leaders advocated for it - because many are scientists and engineers
what is ecological civilization?
for - definition - ecological civilization - Eastern-based perspective of humans living in harmony with nature - Institutionalized in policy in 2012
main point of this paper again I still feel like it's still valid
for - paper - Earth System Science for Global Sustainability: Grand Challenges - 2009 - still valid today - Forecasting - Observing - Confining (Planetary Boundaries) - Responding (Governance) - Innovating (How we organize society)
ecological civilization from an earth system perspective
for - anthropocene - ecological civilization from an earth system perspective - Deliang Chen
especially democratic at all levels.
for - post-growth economy - democratic at every level
post-growth and degrowth econ e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e economies are part of this shared struggle for well-being within planetary boundaries
for - anthropocene - shared struggle - post-growth and degrowth is part of it
the question is, are we able to activate that part of our story now at a whole different scale in terms of turning this time of the anthroposine around?
for - anthropocene - activating shared social struggle to turn it around
the question of improvements to well-being over time in a lot of respects it seems that most societies have regressed since egalitarian hunter gatherer
for - wellbeing - claim - has regressed since hunter-gatherers -we've maximized brutality, economic power
provisioning and use of energy.
for - planetary boundaries - postgrowth - provisioning energy - saturation - past a certain point, more energy does not create more wellbeing - decline - energy for high wellbeing has been dropping significantly over time - inefficiency - growth in prmary energy can only account for 25% of improvements in life expectancy - degrowth is technically possible - at less than half the current final energy used
we argue that provisioning is the lynch pin between planetary boundaries and well-being
for - anthropocene - provisioning - between planetary boundaries and wellbeing
postgrowth demand reduction strategies reorienting the economy towards sufficiency, equity and human well-being while also accelerating uh technological changes and efficiency improvements
for - green growth - alternative - postgrowth demand reduction
green growth um is not happening even in the cases where a few rich over consuming countries are doing things like absolute decoupling.
for - green growth - illusion - too little
he most important decision-m which is economic is removed from the political realm for um a lot of us who live in democracies
for - growth economy - important economic decisions - people have no say
the growth economy is that it's fundamentally anti-democratic.
for - growth economy - anti-democratic - free-market rhetoric prevents - democratic - social - environmental - oversight
this economy creates coercive dependence
for - definition - coercive dependence - overproductive economic system imposes overconsumption via lobbying regulation, advertising - creation of resource-intensive dependence as main industrial product of our era
a new economic paradigm beyond growth
for - economic paradigm - beyond growth Julia Steinberger - beyond economic growth
we are not clear for instance what the micro and nanoplastics that we now know are crossing the bloodb brain barrier what does that actually do to how our imagination functions
for - anthropocene - novel entities - nano particles - micro plastic - crossing blood-brain barrier - unkjnown effects
although we're using this word anthroposine like it's a singular thing, the reality is and what many people have been referencing is it is occurring in very different ways around the world and and and exists in different ways
for - anthropocene - many interpretations -SRG comment - interpretant fingerprint
anthroposine harms
for - definition - anthropocene harm
anthroposine's cognitive architecture
for - anthropocene - cognitive architecture
I was in Israel recently to to interview soldiers who just returned from Gaza and I was surprised because there none of them reported obedience to authority. What they mention mostly is the brotherhood feeling.
for - neuroscience - obedience - alternative - empathy to fellow perpetrators - brotherhood effect
we did a study with electronilography where we recruited genocide rescuers, genocide perpetrators and bystanders
for - neuroscience - obedience study - perpetrators - rescuers - bystanders - rescuers - higher empathy - perpetrators and bystanders - no differences detected
I ask people like from the audience to think in a society with political uh insecurity or or else if they would participate as perpetrators or rescuers. And of course, many people say, "Oh, of course I will be a rescuer. I will never hurt anyone." When you look at the real statistics, that's totally different
for - stats - genocide obedience - perpetrators vs rescuers - Rawanda 94.66% perpetrators - Nazi 87.15 %
I'm doing most of this work um in Randa because that's a country where it's relatively relatively easy to um access these populations they're still alive
for - neuroscience - of obedience - study - Rawanda - existing populations of perpetrators and those who refused to participate
whenever they see the pain when they follow orders the activation of those brain regions is reduced compared to when they they are making free decisions
for - comparison - neuroscience - pain center activation - following orders - activations reduced compared to free decision case
We also have different brain regions that are involved in this interpersonal feeling of guilt and we have observed that they their activity is reduced when we follow orders compared to when we act freely.
for comparison - neuroscience - guilt center activation - following orders - activations reduced compared to the free decision case
when we experience pain or where we when we see someone else in pain, our brain activates similar brain regions and that's how we refer to empathy.
for - empathy - neuroscience of - observing pain in others - triggers activations in same brain region as when we experience pain ourselves - observed across species
Most of the time categorization process, discrimination process, dehumanization processes
for - genocide - preceded by 10 preliminary stages - 1. classification - 2. symbolization - 3. discrmination - 4. dehumanization - 5. organization - 6. polarization - 7. preparation - 8. persecution - 9. extermination - 10. denial
When I asked them why did you commit a genocide while they were just civilians so not even trained military members 70% of former perpetrators in Randa said I just followed orders and in Cambodia they report exactly the same reason
for - genocide - why? just following orders - Rawanda and Cambodia interviewees reported the same results - just following orders
I just interviewed soldiers who just returned from Gaza and they said exactly the same
for genocide - Israeli soldiers - give same reason for committing atrocities - just following orders
historically the most ter genocide and slavery have resulted not from disobedience but from obedienc
for - genocide - stem from obedience
Following Orders: The Neuroscience of Obedience
for - neuroscience - of obedience - Emily Casper - book - the neuroscience of (dis)obedience
it require a radical reinvisioning of how we achieve status. What is status? And a radical balancing of power, a reconfiguration of power
for - quote - radical re-envisioning of how we achieve status - SRG comment - Deep Humanity - re-envision status
capital off $10 million.
for - inequality - advocate for - cap wealth at 10 million USD
we're at the 80th anniversary of the Trinity test. So 80 years ago, the very first atomic weapon was exploded in the sand of New Mexico. Beforehand, the scientist Enrico Fermy was taking bets
for - trivia - Trinity test 80th anniversary - Enrico Fermi took bets on Edward Teller's calculation
It's what my favorite archaeologist Bruce Trigger calls a thermodynamic explanation of symbolic behavior
for - paper - Monumental architecture: A thermodynamic explanation of symbolic behavior - Bruce Trigger
Another thing changes. Apart from a change from egalitarianism, we also see a change away from the principle of lease effort.
for - correlation - status competition - anti-least effort (grand monuments)
historically if you look at a history textbook, it's essentially a role called mass murderers.
for - explanation - why leaders are often psychopaths - history book is full of mass murderers
for men, there's rough agreement that amongst the general population, 1% of people would pass the clinical threshold for psychopathy
for - stats - psychopathy - 1% of male population
Very few people are willing to go for status through the use of violence, force, intimidation, and bullying.
for - stats - very few people willing to do violence for status
What's interesting is both these things dramatically change once we get to the holene
for - holocene - social shift - from - egalitarianism - to - power hierarchy
active social choice towards egalitarianism
for - anthropology - evidence that our ancestors were egalitarian and collective was prioritized
we can think of this as a long-term process going all the way from a thin and slow amphine to a thick and fast one, but one that happens over thousands of years
for - anthropocene - evolution of
destructive potential weapons over history, you see a very similar spike, very similar exponential curve as we've seen over and over again today
for - greal acceleration - exponential growth of destructiveness of weapons (in joules)
the phasing out is really a challenge and we need maybe collapse. Uh so how do we collapse things? That's the big question.
for - quote - phasing out is a challenge - maybe collapse is needed
transformations comes with transformation uh sort of deep emotional and psychological challenges. And we talk about in in the research also about transition pain and transition risk
for - definition - transition risk - definition - transition pain
I personally feel the decision was made in 2014 before we'd even put forward proposal. So it was already decided um by those with with power within ICS and IUGS where the where the where it was going because the actual data behind the submission wasn't the reason for rejection.
for - definition - anthropocene - rejection of the term - it was rejected on dogmatic grounds, not on the evidence provided
if Bill Gates took one of my trainings I would say Bill it's yes and when we're prioritizing in the in the scene it's not either or you don't get to pick one of the nodes, you have to you have to prioritize the network
for - Bill gates climate article - is AND, not EITHER OR
you might have seen this this article that Bill Gates published uh end of October this year. Donald Trump wrote this this particular artic article because Bill Gates basically wrote that hey look climate okay climate's a thing climate change is a thing but but don't get all hooked up about climate change because there's other stuff going on like like people's health
for - Bill Gates climate article - SRG Comment - need to look at it from multi-scale, multi-dimensional wellbeing framework to make sense of it
e need a to build a network image of the problem.
for - the network may look different to different people - new trailmark - SRG comment - distinguishes when I'm making a comment from comments from the source - SRG comment - perspectival knowing
it illustrates what wicked problems look like. So it comes from the World Economic uh global risk report from 2020. And what you see here, this is a perception of global risks from the people that that respond to a survey sent out by the World Economic Forum. You can see that in the middle there is climate action failure
for - example - wicked problem graph visualization - World Economic Forum
I was referring back to uh the original uh definition by Walsh which was not the anthroposine at all it was the anthrop era and maybe that what we actually need to be thinking about is is this an era is this the anthroposic era rather than the anthroposine
for - question - anthropocene - era instead of epoch? - professor Alasdair Skelton, Stockholm University - great presentation comparing anthropocene vs other eras in the past 66 million years
So really in terms of the holene we should have at least 50 epox during the last uh just during the ice age.
for - quote - holocene - should have at least 50 during the last ice age
We're looking to the meiosene and potentially even the eene for modern analoges and there were no humans living in those intervals. So we don't know the human impact of the kinds of conditions that are being forecast that are being modeled for a hundred years from now.
for - comparison - anthropocene - past similiar epochs - miocene and possibly eocene - no humans alive at that time - unknown impacts of living in such an environment
we used a number of different proxies at 12 different sites, and they all recorded very clearly the effects of the great acceleration. And with that midpoint of about 1952.9 years, it all makes perfect sense. So it's not just the site at Crawford Lake, but all of the sites that we looked at showed a very very similar signal.
for - definition - anthropocene - synchronized signals of great acceleration at all 12 sites, not just Crawford Lake - Francine McCarthy, Brock University
Crawford Lake in Canada
for - definition - anthropocene - key reference site - Crawford Lake, Canada
one remaining project of course is still the formalization because while that is, you know, as as as Johan said, in many respects it doesn't matter, but in some it does partly because the anthroposine's meaning has been stretched so widely in so many areas that it makes sense to try and at least define it clearly and precisely in one sense so it can be used even quantitatively as well as qualitatively.
for - definition - anthropocene - post rejection definition - future work - even though it's been rejected as a geological epoch, due to so many uses of it, it still needs a proper definition
Fabian Will who I've seen here around somewhere. Where are you over there? uh who is an historian of science working at the Deutsches Museum in Munich
for - climate communications - Fabienne Will, Deutsches Museum - to Fabienne Will, Deutsches Museum - https://hyp.is/ib561tOgEfClWZdKdu0bxg/www.deutsches-museum.de/forschung/person/fabienne-will
if it's just about bending the curve I think solar panels can bend the curve of coal consumption for instance. But of course the difficulty is to get to get near to net zero which is a far far more difficult task
for - bending the curve vs net zero
comment - it depends on how you define "bend the curve" - I think many actually include achieving net zero in bending the curve
half a million years there or thereabouts you know as far as we can judge you know and that is you know probably the the fastest rate of morphological evolution I know you know of that scale and range in a fossil species
for - stats - speed of biological evolution - half million years
techno species individual types of objects created by us uh then the number is again orders of magnitude greater than biological diversity
for - stats - estimate - technodiversity - orders of magnitude more than biodiversity
macroscopic life forms probably 8 n 10 11 million
for - stats - estimate - biodiversity - macroscopic life - 8 to 11 million
biodiversity and techno diversity
for - biodiversity - technodiversity
aluminium for instance almost unknown in nature. Microgram amounts just here and there. Uh uh enough now made to coat the whole of the USA you know and an increasingly large part of Canada in standard kitchen aluminium foil
for - stats - aluminum - rarity in nature - now can coat North America in aluminum foil
a metalrich surface to the planet which is something quite new
for - stats - metal rich surface of planet is novel
the last decade however a new super synchronizer sorry have been emerging I think the concept of crisis recently expanded to idea of poly crisis.
for - claim - polycrisis - super synchronizer
I think modernity also had or even have these super synchronizers. And I think the strongest candidate is the concept of progress that synchronized this idea of progressive linear time that synchronize all other processes in politics, technology, science etc.
for - claim - progress - super synchronizer of modernity
wisdom
for - climate science - humanities - wisdom - can climate science and humanities make a meaningful contribution?
how our economic and social systems um are being valued and also continued the role of capitalism as a style of thought and also a practical system of how uh we household
for - climate crisis - questioning socio-economic system - capitalism
much older concepts like the sustainability concept it's it makes that really look very old because sustainability is still in a way uh an idea from a very linear world
for - sustainability - old linear perspective
last month at COP 30. overshoot turned into an accepted even a programmatic concept
for - COP30 - accepted overshoot
Is human agency we could ask overestimated as a category or is it underestimated? What what sort of thing is it actually? Is it fundamentally problematic?
for - humanities - planetary boundaries - human agency - over or underestimated? problematic?
the climate of history
for - social sciences paper - The Climate of History - 2009 - species wide perspective of writing history
climate scientists and others all employed in the campaign for that
for - climate scientists & activism - In China - climate scientists encouraged to speak out by state - due to Ecological civilization government strategy
I don't think we should step out of our of our integral independent academic roles because that that I think would would take us into a a a point of of eroding our our credibility and impact
for - Q - should scientists be activists? - A - No, it will erode our credibility - Rockstrom
if we exceed 1.5° C, we're likely going to push both the Amazon basin and the top of Coral Reef systems across the threshold if we permanently stay above 1.5.
for - planetary tipping point - amazon rainforest & coral reefs will tip above 1.5 Deg C - Rockstrom
I think we need to be focusing on what is it that can that can stimulate and push social tipping points and and that's why we're here
for - social tipping points - scientists advocating for
2023 has now been downloaded three 730,000 times
for - stats - planetary boundary 2023 - downloaded 730,000x
2015 planetary boundaries paper, after it had been out for eight months, no, eight years, it had been downloaded 274,000 times
for - stats - planetary boundaries 2015 - downloaded 274,000x
for - Anthropocene - Johan Rockstrom - 2025 - plastic pollution - Sarah Gabbott, prof of paleiobiology
many of our uh historic landfills and our his and our landfills today are going to be eroded, something that's going to intensify with increasing sea levels back into the sea. So this is one in the UK. The US has 50,000 landfills that are on coastal flood planes at risk of um being eroded and exumed back into the sea.
for - stats - pollution - plastic - US - 50,000 coastal landfill sites that could be eroded into the ocean
Dand Pandora um uh Africa's largest dump site which is in uh Nairobi
for - stats - Africa's largest dump site - pollution - plastic - Dand Pandora - Nairobi Kenya
about 30% of the plastic is is recycled or incinerated so kind of keeps in the system or moves out of the system and then the other 70% is effectively waste.
for - stats - pollution - plastic - 30% recycled or incinerated - 70% is landfill waste
the biosphere is is extremely good at recycling biological matter when it's no longer in use. Um, and the consequence of this is actually that fossils fossils that were were once life are incredibly rare
for - recycling - nature - very efficient - few fossils - only 0.1% of all species that have lived - have become fossils
for - book - Hierarchy in the Forest - The Evolution of Egaliterian Behavior - author - Christopher Boehm - from - youtube - The Anthropocene Paradigm Shift
Goliath’s Curse
for - book - Goliath's curse - author - Luke Kemp - SRG comment - a naughty social superorganism! - from - youtube - The Anthropocene Paradigm Shift - https://hyp.is/a1E9ZtQ4EfCEQs_6Hskbmw/www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ggpzwSI1qY
the recent ruling by the international court of justice last month that basically said two things. That nations absolutely have an obligation to address climate change
for - climate crisis - International Court of Justice ruling - climate change
for - from - James Hansen 2025 Finland talk - https://hyp.is/DjPP3tTVEfCcLT9Y2FXzLg/www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2abyXGvELI
for - climate crisis - youtube - James Hansen 2025 October 24 - Climate Reckoning
SRG comment - to - Climate Emergency Forum - analysis of Hansen's paper - https://hyp.is/8JdPEtTqEfCjYTMZfYavLA/www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVw6gIP7JUw
if that doesn't happen, we're in trouble with the climate problem because it's not going to be solved as long as uh the special interests are controlling our governments
for - climate crisis - opinion - James Hansen - won't be solve as long as - there is special interest - controlling government
we have to have a party that takes no money by definition. And the thing about young people is they communicate with social media. They don't need billions of dollars for a campaign. They can do it completely free of charge.
for - climate crisis - power of young people to affect politics - create party which takes no money - young people don't need - opinion - James Hansen
SRG comment - James Hansen - youth and politics -TPF - cISTP -TPF as a vehicle
young people have tremendous potential to affect the political system, but they have to know what needs to get done
for - climate crisis - politics - the power of young people - James Hansen
here's another case that happened again where Bernie Sanders who could never get elected, but young people at all the campuses on the country almost got him to get a nomination
for - example - power of young people - in voting - Bernie Sanders - cited by - James Hansen
young people were campaigning started to like Barack Obama and they managed to get him to get the nomination.
for - example - power of young people - in voting - Obama - cited by - James Hansen
you have to get the role of money out of government.
for - quote - young people - need to get money out of politics - James Hansen
in the United States, both political parties take money from the military-industrial complex, from the fossil fuel industry, from the pharmaceutical industry, from the gun industry.
for - two party system - false dichotomy - opinion - James Hansen
if we treat China like an enemy, then they become an enemy,
for - quote - Multilateralism - China - James Hansen - If we treat China like an enemy, then they become an enemy
Climate sensitivity is the most basic issue. Juel Charnie. The Charnie sensitivity refers to the case in which ice sheets on Greenland and Antarctica are fixed. Charie's estimate had a huge uncertainty from 1.5 to 4.5 degrees
for - definition - Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity (ECS) - The global average surface temperature increase when CO2 levels double from pre-industrial levels, allowing all climate feedbacks (like ice melt, water vapor, clouds) to fully manifest. - climate crisis - Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity - huge range - 1.5 to 4.5 deg Celsius - IPCC estimates 3 deg C
for - James Hansen - youtube - The truth about global warming
Transcript
2:47 We do not have to wait 10 years to conclude that we have reached 1.5 Degrees of warming. Satelllite data shows that earth is strongly out of energy balance.
3:09 An important factor is that IPCC's best estimate of climate sensitivity is a substantial underestimate. I will show that tomorrow in several independent ways.
3:28 Climate sensitivity is probably between 4 and 5 degrees Celcius for doubled CO2 rather than 3 degrees
4:28 What we witness now is scientific reticence on steroids, perhaps because IPCC was granted the position of supreme authority
4:43 But in science, supreme authority is not granted to anyone. Galileo proved that.
4:55 An example of expert herd mentality is the response to our global warming acceleration paper which Annie was coauthor on. The next day, these experts condemned our paper in the media.
5:26 Not one of them discussed the physics in our paper or explained what was wrong. Instead there were ad hominem remarks.
5:51 What could the media do They dropped the paper.
China is becoming the world's first electrostate while the US is doubling down on being a petrostate
for - comparison - energy - China will become the world's first electrostate - The US is doubling down as a leading petrostate
for - planetary tipping points - social tipping points - positive tipping points
SRG Comment - 2025 summary of current state of tipping points - good summary of current state of planetary and social and positive tipping points - crossed our first tipping point - positive one - renewable energy - but it's still too slow, carbon emissions are still too high - comparison - irony - China will become world's first electrostate while the US doubles down as a leading petrostate
They manufacture over 80% of solar panels, about 75% of EV batteries and 60% of wind turbines globally.
for - stats - China electrostate - ecocivilization renewable energy manufacturing - 80% of all solar panels - 75% of all EV batteries - 60% of all wind turbines
globally, fossil fuel subsidies are almost nine times higher for oil and gas than for renewables
for - stats - comparison - 2025 - energy subsidies - fossil fuel subsidies is 9x more than renewables
despite all of this news experts say this change needs to happen much faster because we don't know exactly when we will cross these climate tipping points
for - renewable energy adoption - fast but not fast enough
Solar adoption in Africa skyrocketed between June 2024 and 2025.
for - stats - solar adoption between June 2024 and 2025 rose 60%
solar has shown a learning rate of about 20%,
for - stats - learning rate - solar power has 20% learning rate
solar power has followed a pattern known as Wright's Law
for - definition - Wright's Law - technology becomes cheaper as we build more of it - solar power - following Wright's law
renewable energy has almost certainly passed a positive tipping point
for - positive tipping point - renewable energy - has passed
the AMOC also affects another important climate system, the position of the Inter-tropical Convergence Zone, which is responsible for the monsoon season in India and West Africa
for - climate crisis - planetary tipping point - slowing AMOC - Inter-tropical Convergence zone responsible for monsoons - shifts it south
for - David Suzuki talk - ecology and economy
because we've been transformed into a city dweller it's very easy for us to forget our biological roots
for - quote - forgotten our biological roots - David Suzuki - Because we've been transformed into a city dweller it's very easy for us to forget our biological roots
we think we're so clever that what dominates our lives today is economics
for - quote - illusion of economics - David Suzuki - We live in a human created environment where - it's easy to adopt the illusion that we're different from the rest of life on Earth - we're so smart we create our own habitat - Who needs nature? and - I think this is where we get to where we think we're so clever that what dominates our lives today is economics
in a hundred years we've been transformed from a village agrarian species into a big city dweller
for - stats - urbanization - 1900 to 2000 - agrarian village to human-created urban environment - Tokyo - 1.5 million to 26 million people in 100 years
in 1900 there were only one and a half billion people on the planet
for - stats - population - 1900 - 1.5 billion people on the planet
for - David Suzuki - talk - argon gas - connects all life through time - David Suzuki - interconnectedness- example - air - SRG comment - David - Suzuki - air example of interconnectedness - individual/collective gestalt
Now every major city has a climate action plan.
for - Any global, bottom up collective action climate campaign such as TPF can benefit from synchronization with city climate action plan
for - museum - science - display - planetary health - from - youtube - The Anthropocene Paradigm Shift - Nov 2025 - https://hyp.is/Ot-UntOhEfCX__eQaqeb2Q/www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ggpzwSI1qY
for - wonder - Beau Lotto - sacred - Beau Lotto
for - open source - sankey diagrams - for sustainability - Sankey Shift
for - open source - farming - archived - Open Farm
for - open source - food foraging - Berkeley Open Source Food
for - open source food facts - Open Food Facts
for - open source - world population data - Worldpop
for - open source - Carbon emissions Sankey diagrams
for - open source - GIS - openroute service
for - open source - 3D geospatial - Cesium
for - open source - opensearch