Defending the planet means changing the world.
“Defending the planet means changing the world.”
The World Motivation
Defending the planet means changing the world.
“Defending the planet means changing the world.”
Defending the planet means changing the world.
Healthy populations of predatory crabs and fish protect the carbon in salt marshes, as they prevent herbivorous crabs and snails wiping out the plants that hold the marshes together.
After 12,000 years of feeding humankind, all farming except fruit and veg production is likely to be replaced by ferming: brewing microbes through precision fermentation.
As the scale of economic activity increases until capitalism affects everything, from the atmosphere to the deep ocean floor, the entire planet becomes a sacrifice zone: we all inhabit the periphery of the profit-making machine.
I didn't invent something; I just chose to find my strengths and do things that make me happy and work with businesses I'm proud of and create strategies that I think work. And so far, so good, but I'm not changing the world.
Changing the world is not easy.
Programmers seem to be changing the world. It would be a relief, for them and for all of us, if they knew something about it.
I don't think we are changing the world here, but we might be influencing a perspective.
I don't want a gamer to feel like they have to commit their whole life to changing the world.
We should continue to mobilise against the destruction of the world's great habitats, and its terrifying implications. But the most persuasive argument we can make is to show we mean it, by restoring our own lost wonders.