Earth Sustaining Symbiotic Biotechnology

Ecologies

Strong Ecologies Provide Strong Economies

For eons, Earth’s organisms thrived in unity, then man, certainly assisted by nature developed new systems and processes, forcing them on other ecologies upsetting multiple balances. If we appreciate the Earth as a single biosphere, with all ecologies as elements, then the human race is merely an element of the planetary ecologies; unfortunately, it is evermore the most destructive. Individual organisms live together forming ecosystems, and depend on one another, sharing multiple different types of interactions critical for survival of the individuals and the common good. One category of interactions is in ways organisms acquire energy (food). Some organisms (autotrophs-producers) create their own energy-food molecules from sunlight using the energy from light and the hydrogens and electrons from water, to combine the carbons found in carbon dioxide into more complex energy-rich organic molecules like glucose, while others (heterotrophs-consumers), all animals, fungi, and certain bacteria are (heterotrophs-consumers), predominantly in a positive set of cycles that when left to the combined devices are when in balance, collectively beneficial. Chemosynthesizers live in places absent of sunlight such as along oceanic (volcanic) vents at great depths on the ocean floor. All organisms equate to specific roles in the planetary ecology, and such is life that it always eventually expires. For humans and maybe other animals, in the end all that is left is a collection of memories–how good they are is up to the individual. Was the individual mutually beneficial or did they simply survive on greed, fear and insecurity. Decomposers and scavengers, detritivores (which eat detritus or parts of dead things), are incredibly mutually beneficial. Therefore, are the most valuable people on Earth those who manage the garbage? This interaction is critical for our health and the health of the entire planet is crucial, but it is a losing battle critically spiralling out of control. Another category of interactions between organisms has to do with close, usually long-term interaction between different types of organisms. These interactions are called symbiosis. The impacts of symbiosis can be positive, negative, or neutral for the individuals involved. Organisms often provide resources or services to each other; the interaction is mutually beneficial. These mutually beneficial symbiotic interactions or mutualism, may protect an ecological element from an organism that would like to make the other its next meal, and at the same time the other provides a haven for symbiotic ecologies. Symbiotic relationships can always be positive for both participants when balanced and managed. Predation is most often the winner in an interactive relationship. The predator benefits and the prey is harmed lethally, (human predation Vs planet and species as an example). This requires critical management of change, with less pocket stuffing rhetoric. Marketing rhetoricity will constantly bleat that competition is beneficial. However, competition is an interesting in ecological interactions. When two organisms compete or fight for the same limited resource such as food, shelter, a mate, or sunlight, there is usually a definite in-balance outcome, but growingly as competitors fight literally to the death and one side is more often depleted than the other, the negative interaction grows ever increasingly critical for both. In order for each of us to assist in our own small but critically necessary we must think and act locally to achieve a higher focus on and delivery of mutuality. Those destroying the planet need to accept that it is also their role to repair it and the arrogance that exacerbates the ignorance and incompetence needs to morph into reciprocity. This is past an alternative; it is the imperative. The way to embrace and deliver beneficial change, is to act locally as a part of the change.