Manifesto · Becoming Planetary
Becoming Fully Planetary
From Homo sapiens to Homo biospheris
The Planetary Age
The tipping point with two outcomes
Humanity has crossed a threshold. Its actions now modify the global climate, biogeochemical cycles, oceans and biodiversity. Everything humanity depends on to survive rests on a single living organism: the Biosphere.
Two Outcomes
With no stable intermediate state
Growing turbulences
Cascading crises · Declining collective absorption capacity
Planetary dimension assumed
Humanity organizes its capacity for action · Regeneration
3Four competing narratives
Planetary capitalism
United States
Technological supremacy, open markets, AI as global cognitive infrastructure
Planetary in the spatial sense. No feedback loop toward the Biosphere.
Civilization-state
China
Belt and Road, exportable standards, planning of a recomposed world order
Planetary in the spatial sense. No feedback loop toward the Biosphere.
Techno-feudalism
Transnational AI actors
Control of models, platforms, satellites · Oligarchy without a political body
Planetary in the spatial sense. No feedback loop toward the Biosphere.
Homo biospheris / Révolution bleue
Humanity as a whole
Planetary collective conscious of belonging to the Biosphere · Organ of a living superorganism
The only one of the four that loops back to the Biosphere and remains viable long-term.
Homo biospheris
The balance between autonomy and integration
Drift 1 of the planetary age
Fragmentation
- Over-individualism
- Over-domination
- Predatory markets
- Technology without shared project
- Severed link to the living
The Dynamic Balance
Homo biospheris in balance
- Unity without uniformity
- Diversity without fragmentation
- Coordination without domination
- Belonging without erasure
- Service of the living
Drift 2 of the planetary age
Totalitarian absorption
- Over-integration
- Over-uniformization
- Planetary technocracy
- AI of control
- Loss of freedom and creativity
4 articulated levels · Each necessary to the one above
Diagnosis
The Planetary Age
The tipping point with two outcomes. Human interdependencies run through the Biosphere. The window for bifurcation is measured in years.
The planetary organism
The Biosphere
A living planetary organism that ceases to be a passive framework. Vernadsky (1926), Lovelock and Margulis (Gaia): a physiological superorganism with no central command, in permanent homeostasis.
The conscious organ
Homo Biospheris
Cancer
Proliferation without regulation · Consumption at the expense of the host
Organ ✓
Defined function · Regulation · Regeneration · Service of the Whole
Operational system
Biospheric Economy
Founding question
What is humanity for? And from that: which needs are legitimate?
Value criterion
Net contribution to the functioning of humanity-as-organ within the Biosphere
Temporality
Horizon of decades, centuries. The classical discount rate loses its relevance.
The Blue Revolution
Compatible with all beliefs · Adds a layer of planetary belonging without erasing local identities
01
Fundamental anthropological
Love
Energy of union from the big bang to the Biosphere. The force that produces holons at each leap in complexity.
Dreams
Interlocking: individual dream, collective dream (Jung), dream of Gaia. Each fulfilled life contributes to the metamorphosis.
The Overview Effect
The cognitive and emotional experience of astronauts. Planetary identity within minutes (OneHome).
02
Civilizational propagation
Artificial Intelligence
The only planetary organizing power currently available. Can become the nervous system of the planetary organ.
Youth
Awareness of the disarray and less constrained by the system. The most mobile propagation operator.
Music
Synchronization through resonance, bypassing the concept. No civilizational movement without it.
03
Symbolic
The Little Prince
A figure of Homo biospheris already loved worldwide. A giant on a small planet he tends, a fulfilled planetary organ.
Klein Blue
IKB, 1960. Color freed from all materiality. Chromatic analog of the Overview Effect. Color of the Earth, dreams, planetary consciousness.
The Blue Revolution encompasses the other three narratives. The world of Homo biospheris will need technological power, large-scale organizing capacity and digital infrastructure, oriented toward a single goal: to finally become humanity.
Synthesis · What unites the 8 operators
The Narrative / The Myth
The Blue Revolution saga tells the great adventure of the transition from Homo sapiens to Homo biospheris. It grounds these concepts in concrete situations, gives a face to the forces that oppose them and the characters who navigate them, and carries the values of a world in the making.
Le Siècle bleu
La Révolution bleue
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