Maps are never neutral. With their linearly organized geometries of North and South, East and West, they express historically constructed balances, silently proposing binary world-visions and normalizing scales of values. And so, too, our imagination is
never completely innocent.
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Serenella Iovino Ecozon@ Editorial
(via off-whitenoise)
(via off-whitenoise)
Knowing and reaching our fullest potential within the constraints of the biosphere must be the ultimate goal, the driving vision of the twenty-first century. And the noosphere concept suggests a philosophy for such a necessary balance.
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Mikhail S. Gorbachev (via inthenoosphere)
The Earth’s ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles (such as carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus) both drive and respond to environmental changes ranging from local to global scales. These current environmental changes appear to be unprecedented, in both timing and geographical extent. Major uncertainties in Earth science originate from the dynamics and interactions within and between ecosystems and their biogeochemical cycles across land, ocean, atmosphere, and human activities. Resolution of uncertainties is needed because of the profound implications for future climate, food production, biodiversity, sustainable resource management, etc.
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NASA (via inthenoosphere)
Without modifications to the social and material environment, there can be no change in mentalities. Here, we are in the presence of a circle that leads me to postulate the necessity of founding an “ecosophy” that would link environmental ecology to social ecology and to mental ecology.
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Félix Guattari (via inthenoosphere)
