The Human Superorganism

14 minute read As human society has grown ever-larger, organized, and inter-reliant, our collective behavior remains simplified and predictable. Enter: the “superorganism.”

Systems Destabilization

10 minute read Humans seem so insignificant on our own – yet our efforts, together, affect everything. Today, this leads to the unmooring of Earth’s systems en masse.

The Scale of the Anthropocene

15 minute read We now live in a geological era known as the Anthropocene, an epoch defined by anthropogenic, or human-caused, changes to major earth systems processes. But what does this really mean? Here, we’ll explore our various impacts through graphic visualizations, grounding the scale of our current endeavors in long-term planetary context.