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Adding Biosphere Protection to AI: Status Report
A progress note from Phase One, April 2026 Some readers know that I have been working on a project called Biosphere Sentinel, also known as the AI Biosphere Constitution. The plan is to build an artificial intelligence advisor for ecological decisions that operates within hard limits drawn from Earth system science. The system runs on a small computer cluster in Arizona. Nothing is in the…
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An Ecological Constitution for Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence is growing faster than any technology in human history. Data centers consumed 460 terawatt-hours of electricity in 2024, and this is projected to more than double by 2030. The water, minerals, and land required for AI infrastructure are placing direct pressure on ecosystems worldwide. This expansion is occurring while Earth’s life-support systems are failing. The 2025…
Limiting Global Warming To Two Degrees Celsius Is Not Enough
The biggest threat to life on Earth is the massive damage to the biosphere by humans. This damage comes from our heavy resource use, waste production, and severe global warming. Human actions are pushing natural systems past their limits (Rogers 2025). This causes mass extinctions and loss of vital life support systems. The endless drive for economic growth is unsustainable. “A great change in…
Post 5: Ignorance of Innocence, Evidence from the Desert
Theories can be dismissed. Long-term data cannot. In 1974, a fire burned through the vegetation along Dead Man Wash in the Sonoran Desert uplands north of Phoenix, AZ. Giant Saguaro cacti were scattered along the wash. Between them grew diverse native perennials adapted to arid conditions over millions of years. Fifty years of monitoring revealed what happened next. After the fire, invasive…
Post 9: Ignorance of Innocence, Plain Member and Citizen
Aldo Leopold wrote in 1949 that we abuse land because we see it as commodity. When we see it as our community to which we belong, we tend to use it with more respect. Becoming a “plain member and citizen” of the biosphere means relinquishing exceptionalism. We are not the rulers of Earth. We are one species among millions. We are participants in an ancient web of relationships, nodes in the…
Post 8: Ignorance of Innocence, Three Principles of Maturation
Three principles define the shift from adolescence to maturity, from destroyer to steward. Ecocentricity means rejecting the view that nature exists for human utility. It means recognizing intrinsic value throughout the biosphere. Rivers have worth independent of irrigation potential. Forests matter beyond timber value. Species deserve protection not for ecosystem services but because they…
Post 7: Ignorance of Innocence, Cognitive Adaptation
Humans possess something no other species has: the capacity to think about our own thinking. We can identify our biases and design systems to counteract them. We can study collapsed civilizations and extract lessons applicable today. We can model futures and change course before critical impacts. We can consciously direct cultural evolution rather than stumbling through it blindly. This…
Post 6: Ignorance of Innocence, Suffering as Teacher
We refused to mature through foresight. Now we must mature through catastrophe. This is not punishment. It is pedagogy. The floods, fires, famines, and extinctions are initiatory ordeals—the only teachers capable of piercing frameworks that voluntary learning could not penetrate. Developmental psychology reveals the pattern. Adolescents often require painful experiences to accept realities they…
The Danger of "Reticence on Steroids"
In a candid December 2025 appearance on the program Climate Chat, climatologist James Hansen spoke plainly regarding the state of global climate communication. He described the scientific community’s current posture not merely as cautious, but as “scientific reticence on steroids”. Hansen argued that the persistent political narrative, that global warming can still be limited to 1.5°C via…
Post 4: The Thermodynamic Reality
Industrial civilization runs on a one-time inheritance. Fossil fuels represent millions of years of accumulated sunlight, compressed and concentrated by geological processes. We are burning in centuries what took eons to form. This is the carbon pulse, an artificial monsoon that allowed extraordinary population growth and technological development. Under its influence, we built complexity far…
Post 3: Pathological Industrial Adolescence
The adolescent brain possesses adult capacities for reasoning and manipulation but lacks mature judgment. The adolescent believes themselves invincible, resists external constraints, and prioritizes immediate desires over long-term consequences. Industrial civilization exhibits these same symptoms. Omnipotence fantasies drive our faith in technological salvation. We will engineer our way out of…
Post 2: The Human Paradox
Bacteria detect chemical gradients and remember previous exposures. Plants learn from experience and communicate through fungal networks. Crows fashion tools and teach solutions to other crows. Rats choose to rescue drowning companions even when food rewards are offered as alternatives. These are not anthropomorphic projections. They represent measurable cognitive capacities distributed…
Post 1: The Biosphere as Cognitive Community
We assume cognition (thinking, memory, and emotion) is only possible for humans and a few other species. This assumption is wrong. Bacteria detect chemical gradients and remember previous exposures. Plants learn from experience and communicate through fungal networks. Crows fashion tools and teach solutions to other crows. Rats choose to rescue drowning companions even when food rewards are…
The Innocence of Ignorance: A New Perspective on Environmentalism
How Can We Love What We Destroy? A man stops traffic to carry a turtle across the road. A woman spends her savings rehabilitating injured raptors. Children organize to save species they will never encounter in the wild. These acts of compassion are not rare. They appear everywhere, spontaneously, across cultures. Something in us responds to other living beings with genuine care. Yet our…
Manifesto of the Initiation
Here is a short explanation of the title. It breaks down the metaphor used in the text to clarify that “Initiation” refers to a rite of passage rather than a beginning. The title reframes the collapse of industrial civilization not as a meaningless end, but as a necessary rite of passage for humanity. It argues that humans are behaving as adolescents: obsessed with immediate gratification, a…
Announcing My New Novel: The Long Fire Season
I am pleased to announce the release of my new novel, The Long Fire Season. For years, I have written about the technical realities of biosphere collapse and the necessity of adaptation. Now, I am exploring those themes through the most powerful lens available to us: the human heart. Love in the Time of Nature’s Decline The Long Fire Season is a multi-generational saga that asks a fundamental…
Quantum physics, rainbow gravity, and my next novel
One of the biggest problems with quantum physics – apart from the way it attracts new age woo – is that it doesn’t reconcile with Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity. The two don’t meet when it comes to gravity. And so one of the major thrusts of physics since the 1940s has been to find that elusive ‘theory of everything. . . . . “Another possibility is that the ability of the LHC to make…