The 3 A’s: Acceleration — Armageddon — Anthropocene We live in the age of the great Acceleration, ecological Armageddon and the Anthropocene. The Great Acceleration, the time period from 1950 onwards (by WIlliam Steffen) illustrates a number of socio economic trends — population, growth, urbanization, energy use, water consumption, fertilizer consumption, transport. All have been and are still…

Homo Sapiens has used stories and myths to progress. Throughout history, we have rallied around a singular cause that we believe is worth something and spontaneously managed to live in larger groups than 150 people[1]. As far as we know, only Homo Sapiens can talk about things it has never…