Evolving human ecology | WARC

The story of humanity is an urban one, a slow 20,000 year drift towards a largely urban condition. A city does the same thing to individualism that a natural ecosystem does to a tree — thriving there is about living well with people who are not like you. Just as a tree revels in those multifarious interdependencies, so we do with cities.

We are approaching the biggest ecological collapse in 65 million years. The urgency of this moment demands a different kind of thinking — one that puts life at the centre of every decision. In conversation with Standard Deviation, we explore visions for a regenerative future, and what it means to give back much more than we take.

Ecological Belonging is an emerging idea centered on developing a new narrative around how we connect ourselves to the world.

We start with a simple question: “ How do we live? ”

We are inviting people to remember , renew and reweave the stories, rituals and practices that root us in a deep interconnectedness between ourselves, our communities, our ... See more

an ecological civilization would be designed on the core principle of fractal flourishing: the well-being of each person is fractally related to the health of the larger world.

Do we see ourselves as lone warriors, out there in hostile territories to secure our own advantages? Or as embedded parts of communities, or of specific ecosystems, or nature as a whole?

As human beings, we were shaped by necessity. In those early, precarious days, survival meant coming together—forming tight-knit tribes, relying on each other, and adapting to the demands of the natural world. We depended on the land for food and shelter, learned to cooperate, and created tools and strategies to hunt, gather, and endure.

It was thr... See more