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Finding Our Ecological Niche in the Web of Life
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Finding Our Ecological Niche in the Web of Life

By Kate Kheel from Safe Tech International; Image by bess.hamiti@gmail.com from Pixabay In a thought-provoking essay, The Simple Story of Civilization, author Tom Murphy condenses the approximately 2.5 million years we humans have been here on Earth into an average life span of 75 years. In this model, the first 70 years represent the period during which different species of…

How Ecological Limits and Sense Making Inspire a Shift in Consciousness

By Kate Kheel of Safe Tech International (The article is similar to the text of the talk Kate gave at the recent Space Conference in India.) Though we humans have indeed been slow learners, many have now come to understand that exponential growth cannot be maintained on a finite planet. For millennia, there was little change from one generation…