Bioregioning 🌍

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“Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary.”
—Edward O. Wilson

What it takes to grab the biggest slice of the pie is different than what it takes to make the biggest pie. This is, quite literally, the fundamental problem of human social life, and it is just as true for an individual in a team as it is for a nation-state arguing that it should be allowed to release more carbon than other nations.

We need to construct conditions in which altruism can thrive.

What's in it for me → What's in it for us? Eco-system!

The three Cs of human distinctiveness:

1. Cooperation. First, we easily cooperate with others who are genetically unrelated to us and are by far the most cooperative primate.

2. Cognition. Second, our cognition is different, especially our capacity for symbolic thought and relational learning.

3. Culture. And, third, we culturally transmit more learned behavioral information across generations than other species.

"The first publications were called a “Bundle”—not a book, rather individual essays, poetry, graphics and posters, each printed separately and then assembled unbound into an envelope—named PLANET/DRUM. The PLANET/DRUM Bundles were originally conceived to spread planetary information—a “voice for the planet,” and to have production/publishing decentralized, passed around among activists in various locales around the planet, making PLANET/DRUM beats from various places. The first Bundle invited collaboration with, “Do you have a message to send out?”