Creating Living Systems: An Introduction

A Perspective on Climate Adaptation

For some strange reason, the most common elements of modern civilization has little or no resemblance to the elements in the natural world.

When I look at a city, a house, a bridge, roads — these hard, hot, sharp edged structures have none of the flow, life and flair(!) of the natural world.

It’s odd that our imagination wished to wipe clean living, thriving landscapes and eco-systems in favor of lifeless boxes and flat surfaces.

For all of our smarts and “advanced species-ness”, we seem to over-extract Life and its bounties from our rivers, forests, oceans while pumping toxicity and trash into them. All the while, not recognizing that every aspect of our physical existence is inextricably linked to the healthy and thriving natural world — food, water, breath, and materials for shelter, transport and technology.

We have acted like children, exploiting and over-exhausting the Mother. And Her patience is running out.

A narrative of hope within the climate crisis, requires a climax of evolution and adaptation of the human collective towards developing symbiotic life with planet Earth. These coming years the collective is in for a journey that forces them to understand, care for and adapt to the natural support systems that have allowed for their thriving through the millennia.