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How Your Planet’s Control Structure Really Works
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Forget all about whatever you were told in school about how the world works. Stay with me as I lay out a better schema, that more accurately reflects the way the world is run.
It all has to do with the study of ecology, and energy, and information flow. Because, you see, energy is fungible, and so is information. In fact, energy is transformable into information, and vice versa.
In other words, the complex interplay of energy and information, broadly conceived, yields an ecology, a dynamic system with myriad feedback loops, positive and negative, whether biological, political, economic, social, etc. This reality has been well understood by leading thinkers and analysts for many years. As the years have gone by, ecological modeling of all kinds has gotten more and more complex. This has everything to do with how the modern world is run.
Enter Howard T. Odum, Stage Left
Most people have never heard of Howard T Odum, the influential 20th century scientist and thinker (or his brother Eugene P. Odum, with whom he wrote the first modern textbook of ecology), including a lot of scientists and intellectuals, and neither had I before I matriculated in forestry school, to earn my second master’s degree.
But Howard Odum’s ideas and prodigious body of intellectual work have arguably done more to establish the modern discipline of ecology than anyone else’s.
Among his numerous accomplishments, Howard odum was a pioneer in:
- Ecological modeling
- Ecological engineering
- Ecological economics
- Estuarine ecology
- Tropical ecosystems ecology
- General systems theory
Perhaps Odum’s biggest insight was that the world, and everything in it and on it, is energetic. The corollary to that is that the entire global system, every facet of it, from the microscopic to the macroscopic, is all energetically interconnected.
In fact, everything is interconnected electrically. Odum realized early on that the Earth system, all of it, was essentially an unimaginably complex electrical circuit, that could be modeled as such.
And he set about doing that. He started with incoming solar radiation, which is nothing but a stream of a near infinite flood of photons, subatomic particles and electromagnetic radiation. But, you see, all of this great flood of energy from the Sun carries an electrical charge. Photons, for instance, come barreling in at the speed of light and strike chlorophyll molecules in the leaves of photosynthetic plants and phytoplankton. That in turn initiates a cascade of electrochemical reactions in photosynthetic organisms that ultimately powers biological life, because it forms the basis for a great deal of the energetic activity that takes place farther along the ecological chain in the biosphere on this planet. And it all starts with mind-bending quanta of light energy from the Sun, our local star.
Source: http://truthisscary.com/2014/12/how-your-planets-control-structure-really-works/
