2022 Sovereign Mars: Transforming Our Values through Space Settlement
https://www.amazon.com/Sovereign-Mars-Transforming-through-Settlement/dp/0700633901

The goal of sending humans to Mars is becoming increasingly technologically feasible, but the prospect of space colonization raises important questions about civilizational ethics and collective morality. History shows how destructive colonialism has been, resulting in centuries-long struggles to achieve liberation from the violent competition for land and resources by colonial powers. Space settlement poses the same temptation on a cosmic scale, with commercial actors and government space agencies doing the work previously carried out by European empires. The question is whether humans will take a different approach in this new frontier.

In Sovereign Mars, astrobiologist Jacob Haqq-Misra argues that settling Mars offers humankind a transformative opportunity to avoid the mistakes of the past by “liberating Mars” as a sovereign planet from the start. Rather than see space as a way to escape human problems on Earth, Mars presents humanity with a challenge to address these problems by thinking carefully about the theory and practice of civilization. Drawing on past examples of cooperative sovereignty, such as the Outer Space Treaty of 1967, the United Nations Law of the Sea Conventions, and the Antarctic Treaty System, Haqq-Misra begins a conversation about governance in space well in advance of the first arrival of humans on Mars and makes the case for an analogous approach to space that will preserve the space environment and benefit future generations.

Haqq-Misra examines the emergence of sovereignty in space through the lens of historical precedent on Earth and develops models of shared governance that could maximize the transformative potential of Mars settlement. Sovereign Mars proposes the planet would serve humankind best as an independent planetary state, a juridical peer to Earth, to enable new experiments in human civilization and develop a pragmatic model for shared governance on Mars.

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

TADEAS:

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.

TADEAS:

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.