Cooperation on deep ecology

You get mature ecosystems such as rainforests and prairies where you have far more cooperation th...

Thu, 17 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +1000

You get mature ecosystems such as rainforests and prairies where you have far more cooperation than you have hostile competition.

All of us are walking communities of bacteria

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

All of us are walking communities of bacteria. The world shimmers, a pointillist landscape made of tiny living beings.

Life on Earth is an elaborate and intricate symbiotic phenomenon

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Life on Earth is an elaborate and intricate symbiotic phenomenon.

Symbiosis, living together in physical contact, is a concept neglected in evolution

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I think the concept of symbiosis, of living together in physical contact, is a very important concept in evolution that has been neglected.

The romantic vision of biotic nature as a cooperative venture is scientifically accurate

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The romantic vision of biotic nature as a cooperative venture is far more scientifically accurate than the view of nature as violent and competitive.

The view of evolution as chronic bloody competition dissolves before a new view of cooperation

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The view of evolution as chronic bloody competition among individuals and species, a popular distortion of Darwin’s notion of ‘survival of the fittest,’ dissolves before a new view of continual cooperation.

We abide in a symbiotic world

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

We abide in a symbiotic world.

Life did not take over the globe by combat but by networking