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This “prey-switching” behavior is common to generalist predators and turns out to be ecologically stabilizing for the whole food web. As generalists turn their attention to different prey species, the species that were getting depleted get a chance to recover, reducing the risk of extinction.

Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)

Every discipline discovers its own ecology in time, as it shifts inexorably from the walled gardens of specialized research towards a greater engagement with the wider world.

James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence

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Jeffrey D. Sachs • The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions

the future of infrastructure is not merely adaptive by design , but alive by function : a dynamic ecology of interlinked systems capable of learning, evolving, and regenerating within planetary limits.

Substack • Infrastructure After Permanence: From Monuments of Certainty….

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Margret Grebowicz • Mountains and Desire: Climbing vs. The End of the World

“We have a problem with scale. The planetary crisis can seem impossible to grasp. But focusing on the local can feel limited. How do we work to a scale that feels manageable? There is a way of reorganising how we think about scale: the -shed. -sheds (from Old English scead) describe the natural boundaries between waterbodies. They are not

Creative Destruction • Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #82

While the same laws of physics reign over Earth’s smallest and largest species, the balance of forces shifts with size. Intermolecular forces flex beneath the feet of water striders on a pond, capillary forces shoot water impossibly upward through a plant’s thin roots, and electrostatic forces can ensnare any oppositely charged flecks that lie in... See more

Max G. Levy • The Hidden World of Electrostatic Ecology | Quanta Magazine

I take to heart Tim Garrett’s excellent work,7 indicating that only the collapse of industrial civilization will prevent runaway climate change. And there are many, many other good reasons to terminate this set of living arrangements. According to a United Nations report from August 2010, we’re driving to extinction 150 to 200 species every day.