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Welcome to the Macroscope
The place to talk ecology and what we can do for better nature and a sustainable, stable and fun society.
About this blog
"Ecologists [..] lack a Macroscope - a machine that reveals big patterns that emerge from a mass of local fuzz, and which operates on time-scales orders of magnitude longer than a three-year research grant."
- John H. Lawton
Good ecologists know which factors can influence an ecological process, but great ecologists weed down the list and tell you which are the key drivers. The Macroscope, often envisioned as a machine, is not a machine, it is a brain, or better yet - multiple brains working together, engaging in imaginative critical thinking, while wielding Ockham's razor.
This blog aims to be a Macroscope.
It tries to be a Macroscope so as to better understand the natural and human world, so as to be able to address the current socio-environmental crises. Read more about the blog's mission here.
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Rage
Rage is a particularly powerful emotion that can both be very effective and ineffective at eliciting change. Who ever experienced a good row with their spouse or parents and felt the relief and new understanding afterwards can testify to the effectiveness. Whoever was stonewalled by the other party can testify to the ineffectiveness.
Raison d'être - or why blog?
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Elegyo-Marakwet escarpment in Kenya (photo. E.R.J. Wubs)