What our evolutionary heritage reveals about the world we could build — and the principles that could take us there.
When people look at the cascading pathologies of our civilization — the relentless extraction, the extreme inequality, the systematic degradation of the living world — it’s easy for despair to set in: if this is what humans do, perhaps it’s just what humans are. If we are basically ...
**STEELMAN**: The strongest version of this narrative is its synthesis of interdisciplinary evidence—evolutionary biology, anthropology, and systems theory—to challenge the inevitability of current civilizational pathologies. It effectively highlights the convergence of values across Indigenous and wisdom traditions, suggesting these reflect deep human needs rather than cultural anomalies. The proposal for an ecocivilization is compelling in its coherence, drawing on ecological principles (symbi...