We are pushing material solutions powered by the desire of moneyed interest to play a role that creates profit in climate management The power to make crucial decisions is accruing behind cloud seeding, ocen seeding, and more intense industrial agriculture. These are all constructing paths for profit. AI is shifting the balance toward statistical models that manipulate and concatenate dead things on a path to ecological collapse. The two main cultures are mechanical and organic. The trend seems to be the pull the biological slowly into the mechanical aided by the Lego block-like structure of DNA. There is amazing stuff to think about here, but the short-term seems won by the mechanical mindset. The social sciences often see the divide between biophilia and necrophilia.*
Pay attention t to these. Future society better belongs to those who love life rather than those who p[refer to dead controllable matter. Most people, having understood the difference, can judge people fairly accurately as being one or the other in their orientation to life.
first used by Erich Fromm, then by E.O. Wilson. Fromm paired biophilia with necrophilia making the pair into a dynamic diagnostic for assessing the health and sickness of clients. Man for Himself and society The Sane Society