Archive for September, 2018

An ecology of social systems

Wednesday, September 19th, 2018

This essay consists of a condensation of insights from Heinberg’s three-part article, “Human Predators, Human Prey”, and a partial reinterpretation.
Two types of hierarchical relations are evident in ecosystemic predator/prey relations :

Functional as in population regulation, a problem-solving relation that benefits the entire ecosystem as predators keep prey populations in check throughout the ecosystem food [...]