TUHO: TADEAS

TUHO: The planetarity of computation forms what I have called an “accidental megastructure” comprised of overlapping functional layers. Quite literally, it is a stack extending down to the mines of central Africa through subterranean data centers and transoceanic cables to interlaced urban networks up to the glowing glass rectangles through which we view it and it views us. Planetary-scale computation is not virtual. It is a kind of terraforming of its host planet.
To measure the weight of planetary-scale computation includes a sober reckoning with the physical costs of its sprawling infrastructures, which includes differentiating essential purpose from the trivial, and ultimately pondering the price of intelligence itself. In the context that really matters most, the cultivation of synthetic intelligences capable of collaboration with our own most virtuous ambitious and virtuoso expressions is precious. The syntheses they portend are available only if we pursue them with resolve and clarity about their high costs.

2018 Anatomy of an AI System - The Amazon Echo as an anatomical map of human labor, data and planetary resources
https://anatomyof.ai/

https://anatomyof.ai/img/ai-anatomy-map.pdf

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Alien civilizations from level 1 to level 7. We are only at level 0.72
https://youtu.be/Yb4H098aMRI

Living in the Time of Dying - Watch Full Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UftuDAkwM3I


Living in The Time of Dying is an unflinching look at what it means to be living in the midst of climate catastrophe and civilisational collapse. Once we lift the veil of denial and see the time we are living in clearly for what it is, how then do we find purpose, meaning and courage to meet it.

Recognising the magnitude of the crisis we are facing, independent filmmaker Michael Shaw, sells his house to travel around the world looking for answers. Pretty soon we begin to see how deep the predicament goes, and how our cultural systems and ways of thinking brought us here. Stan Rushworth, a Native American Elder, brings an especially enlightening viewpoint to these questions. It becomes clear that climate change is going to ruin our way of life and this then opens up a whole new set of questions: How did we get here as a civilisation to begin with? How do we choose to live in these times with purpose and clarity? and what actions make sense at this time? The people interviewed in the documentary, all highly regarded and well known spokespeople on the issue, argue it's too late to stop catastrophic climate change but in no way too late to regain a renewed life giving relationship with our world and with each other

Publications — AI, People & Planet
https://www.aipeopleplanet.earth/publications

AI, People & Planet

Rapid advances in artificial intelligence not only pose opportunities for biosphere based sustainability, but could also create unexpected social-ecological risks. How can we make sense of both evolving risks and opportunities?

A joint initiative of the stockholm resilience centre at stockholm university, THe beijer institute of ecological economics at the royal Swedish academy of sciences, the Princeton Institute for International and regional Studies and, the Urban Systems Lab at the New School

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Who needs to change? Reflections on the complex relationship between climate change, mental health and the profession of psychotherapy
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003111511-11/needs-change-steffi-bednarek

What does it mean for the psychotherapy profession that more and more countries declare a climate emergency? In a time of demise of our ecosystem that supports human life on Earth, this chapter explores the role of psychotherapy at this important threshold moment and asks who needs to change – the individual clients we see, therapy itself or the culture at large? The chapter argues that in order to face the climate emergency, change is needed at a scale that goes beyond the personal and individual focus. Climate change is a global systemic problem that affects the whole system. What can the therapy profession contribute to individual and collective processes of change? The chapter suggests that we urgently need to develop ways to re-ensoul a culture that is costing us the Earth. It proposes to widen psychotherapeutic theories and explores the conditions that may be needed to develop a psychology of the environment. As a practical starting point, it suggests reviewing aspects of the profession that reflect problematic ideologies of anthropocentrism and individualism.

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2018 CO-ANXIETY, TRAGEDY, AND HOPE: PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SPIRITUAL DIMENSIONS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/zygo.12407

This article addresses the problem of “eco-anxiety” by integrating results from numerous fields of inquiry. Although climate change may cause direct psychological and existential impacts, vast numbers of people already experience indirect impacts in the form of depression, socio-ethical paralysis, and loss of well-being. This is not always evident, because people have developed psychological and social defenses in response, including “socially constructed silence.” I argue that this situation causes the need to frame climate change narratives as emphasizing hope in the midst of tragedy. Framing the situation simply as a threat or a possibility does not work. Religious communities and the use of methods which include spirituality have an important role in enabling people to process their deep emotions and existential questions. I draw also from my experiences from Finland in enabling cooperation between natural scientists and theologians in order to address climate issues.

Library Genesis: Roger Duncan - Nature in Mind: Systemic Thinking and Imagination in Ecopsychology and Mental Health
http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=9262111143135C0BCAB4B1D74785673D

The book compares the work of Gregory Bateson and Henry Corbin and shows how an understanding of the "imaginal world" within the practice of systemic psychotherapy and ecopsychology could provide a language shared by both nature and mind. This book argues the case for bringing nature-based work into mainstream education and therapy practice. It is an invitation to radically reimagine the relationship between humans and nature and provides a practical and epistemological guide to reconnecting human thinking with the ecosystems of the earth.

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2018 Finance and the Earth system – Exploring the links between financial actors and non-linear changes in the climate system
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0959378018300360

Financial actors and capital play a key role in extractive economic activities around the world, as well as in current efforts to avoid dangerous climate change. Here, in contrast to standard approaches in finance, sustainability and climate change, we elaborate in what ways financial actors affect key biomes around the world, and through this known “tipping elements” in the Earth system. We combine Earth system and sustainability sciences with corporate finance to develop a methodology that allows us to link financial actors to economic activities modifying biomes of key importance for stabilizing Earth’s climate system. Our analysis of key owners of companies operating in the Amazon rainforest (Brazil) and boreal forests (Russia and Canada) identifies a small set of international financial actors with considerable, but as of yet unrealized, globally spanning influence. We denote these “Financial Giants”, and elaborate how incentives and disincentives currently influence their potential to bolster or undermine the stability of the Earth’s climate system.

- Financial capital plays a key role in economic activities around the world, as well as in efforts to avoid climate change
- We develop a methodology that link financial actors to industries modifying tipping elements in Earth’s climate system.
- We identify “Financial Giants” who through their ownership have considerable influence over climate stability.
- We assess the incentives of “Financial Giants” to collaborate and use their influence to help stabilize tipping elements.

2022 Towards an Ecopsychotherapy
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Towards-Ecopsychotherapy-Mary-Jayne-Rust/dp/1913494128/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

Psychotherapy invites us to tell the story of our human relationships; ecopsychotherapy expands this to include our earth story, the context or continuum in which our human relationships sit. Ecopsychotherapy is not simply a technique to be applied in therapy: it involves a change in perspective. While practising therapy outdoors is a radical shift that can support and facilitate the healing process, it also acknowledges that our relationship with the earth is both inside and outside ourselves. As climate chaos quickens and increasing numbers of people are waking up to the seriousness of our environmental crisis, we are becoming more aware of our dysfunctional relationship with the earth - the body on whom we depend for everything. Ecopsychotherapy can help to support our reconnection with nature and to discover hope in turbulent times.

2015 States of Emergency: Trauma and Climate Change
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/eco.2015.0024

This theoretical paper briefly summarizes some of the current literature on trauma with a particular focus on dissociative processes and trauma's effects on the brain. These developing theories are described as they may relate to working with climate change on individual and collective levels, pointing toward the importance of a cogent understanding of trauma within the context of the climate change discussion

2022 Scorched Earth: Discourses of Multiplanetarity, Climate Change, and Martian Terraforming in Finch and Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/362245546_Scorched_Earth_Discourses_of_Multiplanetarity_Climate_Change_and_Martian_Terraforming_in_Finch_and_Once_Upon_a_Time_I_Lived_on_Mars

This contribution discusses the current surge of Mars colonization narratives both in science and culture, and the ways these narratives are received and circulated in current ecocritical debates on a multiplanetary future of humanity. This analysis in this contribution takes its cue from the representation of the California wildfires of 2020 as an anthropogenic spectacle that is foreboding of a post-apocalyptic future in which Earth becomes Mars-like, and discusses how this discourse is reproduced in the Hollywood movie Finch and Kate Greene’s popular science memoir Once Upon A Time I Lived on Mars. As texts of quasi-science communication, they produce a contact zone between Earth/Mars which serves to legitimize technoliberal fantasies of terraforming Mars into Earth as a solution to climate change. With all paths to all possible futures of human habitation – utopian or dystopian – allegedly leading right through the Red Planet, there is an urgency to critically engage with the idea of planetarity being overwritten by a discourse of multiplanetarity that veils the continuity of extractivist capitalism/colonialism in a narrative of futurity and progress.

2020 Spiritual Life on a Burning Planet: A Christian Response to Climate Change
https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Burning-Planet-David-Bradford/dp/1725282127

Spiritual Life on a Burning Planet draws on scientific research in developing religious perspectives on anthropogenic climate change. Its four chapters are entitled Tolling Bells, Burning Planet, Eschatology in the Anthropocene, and The Downward Passage. Tolling Bells introduces the topic of climate change and several of its emotional and biblical implications. Burning Planet provides an overview of the science of climate change and surveys the effects of global warming on human life later this century. The essays in Eschatology in the Anthropocene develop theological interpretations of climate change and examine its moral, spiritual, social, and psychological dimensions. The Downward Passage focuses on Christ's descent, the harrowing of hell, understood as a point of doctrine and an exemplary image of forthcoming challenges as we advance more deeply into the Anthropocene. A spiritual path suited to the Anthropocene is outlined. Its watchword is penthos, a traditional practice with sufficient power to convey a person through the grief and mourning that represent a true grasp of our having forced the earth into a new geological epoch.