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Learning to
Engage with Nature's Lively Ways
Jessie Lydia
Henshaw's research on how to find What's Happening
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by Jessie Lydia Henshaw
New
York, modern physicist, senior architect & natural systems scientist
–
With a Surprising New Language for Natural Science –
For
Rediscovering the natural roots of meaning from which human insight first
evolved
And which our recent (10k yr) fascination with
abstract rules for profit helped us loose sight of.
the
Language,
We Can Use
To Find Our Way Again
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Finding
Our Place In Nature
password: NewPlace
An
Introduction
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November
17, 2025 |
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A
Post from Earth.com’s The Collapse Chronical |
Introduction A reply |
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With no sign of
the urgently needed decline in global emissions, the level of CO2 in the
atmosphere continues to rise, and so do the dangerous impacts of global
warming. With projected
emissions from land‑use change (such as deforestation) down to 4.1
billion tons in 2025, total CO2 emissions are expected to be slightly lower
than in 2024. CO2 emissions
budget beyond 2025 The new report
says the remaining carbon budget to limit global warming to 1.5°C is
“virtually exhausted”. “With CO2
emissions still increasing, keeping global warming below 1.5°C is no longer
plausible,” said Professor Pierre Friedlingstein, of Exeter’s Global Systems
Institute, who led the study. “The remaining
carbon budget for 1.5°C, 170 billion tons of carbon dioxide, will be gone
before 2030 at current emission rate. We estimate that climate change is now
reducing the combined land and ocean sinks – a clear signal from Planet Earth
that we need to dramatically reduce emissions. “With projected emissions from
land‑use change (such as deforestation) down to 4.1 billion tons in
2025, total CO2 emissions are expected to be slightly lower than in 2024. CO2 emissions
budget beyond 2025 The new report
says the remaining carbon budget to limit global warming to 1.5°C is
“virtually exhausted”. “With CO2
emissions still increasing, keeping global warming below 1.5°C is no longer
plausible,” said Professor Pierre Friedlingstein, of Exeter’s Global Systems
Institute, who led the study. “The remaining
carbon budget for 1.5°C, 170 billion tons of carbon dioxide, will be gone
before 2030 at current emission rate. We estimate that climate change is now
reducing the combined land and ocean sinks – a clear signal from Planet Earth
that we need to dramatically reduce emissions.” |
I’ve been studying the economic and mental processes that
seem behind the now strongly felt fear by so many people that another whole
system collapse might be directly ahead. System collapses are exponential
progressions, seeming to begin with long series of small changes that might
be insignificant and easy to ignore. The accumulative ones tend to suddenly
become a surprise, and by then often irreversible. So, how such events
sneak up on us, seeming to be no real threat till there’s no chance to
reverse it, is an important part of what can fool us. So, it may really help
to find clear indications for further study and that can be brought to the
attention of others. Such emerging states may need to be responded to for
support, or as being potentially reversible progressions toward a collapse.
That’s a familiar way of engaging with nature for personal needs, for
example. For leading signs such as a persistent rise of societal conflict,
cultural resentment, inequity and confusion, not just fear or politics,
suggest breakdown of societal cohesion and approaching collapse. There’s often reason
for hope in reading signals of both new opportunity and danger as both
usually begin with a prelude of accumulating small changes. That makes it
easy to miss the final tipping points to a lasting change, relieving the
unsustainable growth process that could collapse, but instead heads in a
different direction. Both taking opportunity and avoiding danger, seeking or
avoiding tipping points, are fairly rapid whole system events that are among
the few very simple things that very complex systems do in and with their
contexts. It’s quite common to
respond to watch for the series of turning points system changes to respond
to, oh, like making dinner, starting a conversation, taking part in political
transformations, and the biological events of birth, life, and death, a very
short list. It’s curious there seems not to be a scientific field that
studies just how nature makes such simple work of such complex reorganization
events. They seem to be evidence of nature’s process of energetic creativity,
for which, of course, there is no formula, and why they’ve not been of
scientific interest. That alone could explain why we’re making major uses of
sophisticated science in ways threatening ourselves, while defacing and
deranging our living world. ;-\ Not to go on with
putting down my own home field too long, what seems to open the door to
science-like clarity on the subject is learning to observe and compare the
fairly regular sequences of these series of new directions, the creative
organizational changes that appear to be what weave the fabrics of reality.
So… one might call it RI, or NI, for learning a new way to read real and
natural intelligence from closely observing the eventful continuities of life
changes that matter. If used in connection with
AI, it might help raise much better questions, too, as once one understands
that natural change is generally a creative organizational process animating
a context, it’ll be harder to ignore the contexts, the main error of planning
an economy as a race to achieving infinite power over nature and each other,
and not watching the contexts! So, if you’d like to join group discussions on
the subject, including what might be practical to do about the beginning of
our misdirected world’s apparent accelerating collapse, start one of your own
or visit my research site and look. |
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Fig 1. Atmospheric CO2 concentration, growing exponentially since 1870 when Watt perfected the steam engine. With all but the entire world economic, scientific and activist community having not noticed
World history of economically driven increase in atmospheric CO2,. From The Scripps station on Mona Loa and the South Pole, that the Trump Admin terminated the funding for |
Fig 2. World GDP impact sectors all moving together, with 64% CO2 to GDP coupling With all but the entire world economic, scientific and activist community having not noticed
World economic impact indicators indexed by growth rate (to show if and how they are moving all togetjer |
