Global Superorganism

Description

"From Nate Hagens paper on "Economics for the Future: Beyond the Superorganism"

Highlights

• We lack a cohesive map on how behavior, economy, and the environment interconnect.

• Global human society is functioning as an energy dissipating superorganism.

• Climate change is but one of many symptoms emergent from this growth dynamic.

• Culturally, this “Superorganism” doesn’t need to be the destiny of Homo sapiens.

• A systems economics can inform the ‘reconstruction’ after financial recalibration."

(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800919310067#bib0335)