By Richard Heinberg, New Society Publishers
Ecologists have been telling us that “small is beautiful” since the 1960s, but trends have gone in just the opposite direction, resulting in the flourishing of the Superorganism. Nobody designed this vast, intricate web of global interconnectedness, and no one can control it.
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.
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.
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?
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