2022 The Story of Humanity: Ecology & Consequence
https://www.amazon.com/Story-Humanity-Ecology-Consequence/dp/194862723X/

The Story of Humanity: Ecology & Consequence is the tale of humanity, from hominid emergence to their self-extinction.

The Story appears to be written by alien scholars long after Earthers were gone. From its preface, The Story seems to be science fiction. It is instead history and prophesy.

The Story is a saga of misadventure from a remarkably adaptable creature. The book chronicles how and why men wiped themselves out.

The thematic core of the book is psychology. The Story highlights the junctures at which men had the wrong concept and so made the wrong move

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

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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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