Review: The Economic Superorganism by Carey W. King

By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press

In this aptly titled book, University of Texas research scientist Carey W. King argues that the modern-day global economy is a superorganism.

The economic legacy of the Holocene

By Lisi Krall, Resilience.org

We should face reality: The other-than-human-world now has become almost entirely eclipsed by an unassailable “superorganism”—us, the human species—that continues to expand in evermore destructive fashion.

The Economic Superorganism

By Chris Nelder, Carey W. King, Energy Transition Show

Will we run into fundamental limits on resources and debt? Or can human ingenuity and technological innovation continue to overcome any limits we encounter?

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The Emergence of the Superorganism: Susan Kucera’s Movie “Living in The Future’s Past”

By Ugo Bardi, Cassandra's legacy

Collecting first into bands, then villages, then cities, then states, now humans form a single, giant creature - the superorganism - which is literally devouring the planet to keep itself growing. I