ISSUE 00
This is the Final Decade
This is the final decade for the world as you know it. The decade for you to prevent the future. This is the final decade to keep Earth’s biosphere. And the decade to prepare for societal collapse and exponential extinction if you fail with the task. The razor-thin living membrane of the Earth, the zone of all known life, is destabilizing on multiple fronts. This is the final decade.
3 mins w/o O2 / 3 days w/o H20 / 3 weeks w/o C6H12O6
YOUR MOOD IS Slow horror
The 2020s are born in an encounter with the terror of tomorrow. You live on a heating blue island lost in the black seas of infinity. There is no exit or escape. The cosmic horror of endless space with the deep meaninglessness of life traversing into its possible oblivion sets your mood for the coming years. But this is not a trigger for depression, a call for nihilism, or thirst for annihilation. This is the aura of reality and the vibe for real planetary solidarity.
All known life happens on a biosphere 20km thin
Cancel your worldview
The pathway for collapse mitigation and crisis diversion is laid with a new worldview: Human life is a geological residue. Cancel your anthropocentric and geocentric intuitions. You are not central or singular, and your desires are not important in the grand scheme of life. You are deeply bound by the web of all carbon-based and silicon-based life on Earth. This makes survival a joint effort, carried in collaboration with algae and automation alike.
Extinction at 1000X speed
THE Void is your mirror
To make sense of the new planetary reality is akin of staring into absolute nothingness. Don’t fall for the mythical beauty of the Earth or the siren song of the humbling complexity of terrestrial life. The weirdness upon you is more intense. It can only be revealed by the ultimate void, the black hole. The black hole is weird because it exists, and you will never know how. The void is your mirror, the existential reflection of all organisms on a dying planet. It allows you to see ourselves from the perspective of the true outside.
Join the witchcraft
Keep life alive
The reflection from nothingness gives you a sobering realization: There is nothing sacred, there is no nature, and there is no culture either. There is just a spheroid with life on it, and a life-supporting system about to collapse. Your task for the next ten years is to help keep life alive. You will need to realign climate action with human and more-than-human solidarity, reconstruct economies and societies to achieve net zero balance, reconfigure the planetary flows of energy and matter, and reimagine how hundreds of gigatons of C02 will be removed from the air. The spoiled garden can not be untouched. It must be touched even more for the damage to be fixed. This is your agenda for the final decade.
