The BioIntegrity Podcast

"We have built our society on a number of paradigms that are not rooted in Life-support system reality." In this podcast, BioIntegrity founder Chris Searles shares on the idea that wealth monarchies have propagated the paradigms that whatever's best for those who have the most is best for society, and society can live on material wealth alone. Recorded on a morning walk across a 3,000 acre pecan farm in West Texas about 100 miles from Jeff Bezos' recent launch into space. 

References

• Bezos in space
• Branson in space
• A draft of the paper, "The Value of Biosphere Earth"
• No other planet has even one microbe (NASA)
• NASA has explored +4,400 planets
• Proxima Centauri B, "our best hope", is deadly and 73,000 years away
• Wealth monarchy has been good to me, but not my friends
• UN Convention on Biodiversity, first draft of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
• Cover photo credit: NASA Flight Opportunities

Quotes

"The guardians of the biosphere are not the nations, it's the Indigenous people who still have occupation of their ancestral lands. The paradigm shift that we need to make is to empower indigenous leadership, on Earth, especially for those who are on their ancestral lands now -- they are the guardians of our Life-support system."

"We must call on private wealth to be the change. Every entity that has a net worth of $30 million or more should put a small portion of their wealth right now into advancing humanity by protecting the remaining wilderness, by regrowing the wilderness continuum, and transitioning the economy away from being self-destructive."

"Everything is possible. We have the mathematics. We just have to focus that ingenuity on biospheric reality, Life-support system reality."

"Living in the life-support system paradigm has embedded in it the resolution of a lot of the negativities that have come from the wealth monarchy system; the racism, the mysogyny, the subjugation of people who have less than... There is really a requirement that we employ the best of ourselves in the project of caring for the only life-support system in the known universe, and restoring Earth's biointegrity."

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In this podcast BioIntegrity director Chris Searles provides a brief overview of what each table leg means to BioIntegrity's new organizational model and identity, and proposes the world's .1% wealthiest entities (individuals, corporations, funds, institutions, etc.) invest 5% of their net worths in rescuing the only life-support system's remaining old growth wildernesses and transitioning today's economy into a regenerative economy. The rest of this decade should be focused on successfully achieving this paradigm change in order to overcome today's global challenges. Our primary goal: de-fragmentation of the global wilderness continuum by 2040; emergency-scale protection, regrowth and integration of wilderness integrity on Earth.

The Six Table Legs

• Life-support system
• Biodiversity relationships
• Life force reality 
• Personal healing
• Indigeneity
• Advancement of humanity

Quote

"Science shows us where to focus. Indigenous people show us how."

References

• BioIntegrity Lunch & Learn #8 (which includes a link to scientific citiations)
• Global Drought Monitor
• Chris' article, Biospheric Philosophy
• Donate to biointegrity here, thanks

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Covered in this podcast

• Thank you Jane Lowrimore, Linda Miller-Raff and Dr. Anne-Marie Thomas for their recent donations! Thank you also to CJ Abdo, new monthly contributor!
• The fundraising ask (short)
• We need something we can all agree on, how about continuation of the only Life-Support System?
• We are now living in the era of the broken climate system. 
• Think in decades for the solution to take shape: next eight years (the 2020s), next ten after that (2030s), and the next ten (2040s): Regrow stability. Transition out of life-support system destruction economics and practices. The next 8 years should be focused on successful paradigm change: Optimizing our Life-Support System's integrityProtect, Regrow, and Integrate the Wilderness Continuum, some rationale:
  • Our most reliable social and environmental solution
  • Our quality of life determiner
  • Our continuation determiner
  • Our best response to Climate Change, biodiversity extinctions, food system collapse, overpopulation, biospheric collapse, poverty, preventing / mitigating / being resilient to / and recovering from extreme weather, drought, pollution, and more
• Maximizing biospheric integrity is the best global drought crisis response. 
  • Micro climate = wilderness integrity and richness.
  • Life wants to live.
  • There only good reasons for rescuing and restoring Earth's biointegrity. 
  • Restoration of the wilderness continuum offers more beneficial facets (returns on investment) at greater scale than any other solution. 
• The .1% have more than enough resources to fund this. 

References

• BioIntegrity Lunch & Learn #8 (which includes a link to scientific citiations)
• Global Drought Monitor
• Chris' article, Biospheric Philosophy
• Donate to biointegrity here, thanks

Thoughts on the severity of the day — biospheric recession and becoming the “next” generation. This podcast is re: the recent Fast Company article, "The Amazon used to be 'the lungs of the planet.' Not anymore" and related academic research. Scientifically, the Amazon is the heart of our life support system and the greatest of the productive ecosystems. It is no doubt in retreat and radically threatened today by global warming and human abuse. How do we respond? This isn't just an Amazon problem..... This podcast identifies the basis for change from the top and advancing our known future with biospherically-led economic revolution. Let us embrace biospheric realism today and the opportunities it brings even in nascent form. Let us call for real change now. This is BioIntegrity 2.0.

Citations for this episode (view on Google docs):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kPbe1TFsOGQbNhLDqjOySCxF1cycpmqc/view?usp=sharing

On Feb. 26, 2021, The United Nations published a report which clarified that nations have 10 months to get serious on their climate pledges. Here's a response to that, for the BioIntegrity community, from BioIntegrity founder/director, Chris Searles. In this podcast, Chris talks about the urgency of shifting our focus onto the biosphere, as we endeavor to sort-out how to stop and reverse multiple, urgent, planetary crises.

Show notes, with citations, here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1T6Cv_N3B66ycEqKUrXx0aYwSUxYQGlio/view?usp=sharing