Systems Thinking

The Earth's Nine Boundaries #

The High Cost of Irrational Fear #

The Unfolding Story of Interdependence #

The Triumph of the Tangible #

The Faustian Bargain of Modern Harvests #

Modernity rests on the monumental flows of energy, goods, and data, creating a paradox of scale.

The Age of Extrasomatic Energy #

Topsoil is civilisation's most critical non-renewable resource — taking 200 to 1,000 years to form per centimetre and eroding at 10 to 100 times that rate under industrial agriculture. The Soil Capital Depletion Rate quantifies how fast we are spending this inheritance, and why the arithmetic threatens food security on a timescale that planning institutions consistently ignore.

Documents the regenerative agriculture transition on Gabe Brown's North Dakota ranch, where SCDR fell from approximately 5 to below 0.5 over twenty years, providing data on how fast the soil account can be rebuilt and at what cost.

Quantifies the biological economy of productive topsoil — one billion bacteria and 25,000 nematodes per teaspoon — and traces what industrial tillage systematically destroys in the soil infrastructure that agriculture depends on.