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<p>cf.</p>
<ul>
<li>supremacy, domination, oppression. What is the history of supremacy? What might the alternatives look like across levels of governance?</li>
<li>agency and individuality</li>
<li>symbiosis and mutualism</li>
<li>systems biology, Earth system</li>
<li>holobiont, ecological consortia, superorganisms</li>
<li><a href="/notes/50djge8af1mmn9vaxelqvpa">Longtermism</a></li>
<li>planetary boundaries and the safe operation space</li>
</ul>
<p>What is a civilisation?</p>
<p>Consider <a href="https://ecociv.org/the-ecociv-podcast/">Podcast - Institute for Ecological Civilization</a>.</p>
<p>Slijepcevic, Predrag. <em>Biocivilisations: A New Look at the Science of Life</em>. White River Junction: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2023.</p>
<p>What is the civilizational or ecosystem <a href="/notes/526acjej8ws0pv38mabxaqt">collapse</a>?</p>
<p>Diamond, Jared M. <em>Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive</em>. London: Allen Lane, 2005.</p>
<p>Diamond, Jared M. <em>Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis</em>. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2019.</p>
<p>Consider two scenarios:</p>
<ol>
<li>The Earth live services but humans do not.</li>
<li>Humans survive is largely artificial environments with no wild/autonomous life left. What would be criteria for such survival? Is it at all possible? What is the necessary minimum for co-present nonhuman life?</li>
</ol>
<p>See, materials on symbiosis, e.g.:</p>
<p><em>Symbiotic Earth: How Lynn Margulis Rocked the Boat and Started a Scientific Revolution</em>. Documentary, 2017.</p>
<p>What are the interesting destinations for such research? The <em>Futures</em> journal. The <em>People and Nature</em> journal.</p>

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