Glenn Albrecht PhD.
Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia.
11th April 2013.
Sumbiosity: An emergent state
actively created by humans in all domains that conserves and/or achieves an ongoing
balance and permanent interdependence between humans, all other life forms and
the life support systems of the earth (biogeochemical cycles).
{Greek sumbiosis, companionship, Greek sumbios = living together, Greek bios = life, Pronounciation: ‘soom-bi-os-ity’}
Sumbiosity is a state of living which achieves ongoing ecological balance
with other life forms on earth (a state formerly called sustainability). ‘Sustainability’
is inadequate as a concept because it does not specify what is to be sustained and
over what time frame it is to be sustained and as such has been abused and
devalued as a term.
Sumbiosity solves the problem of what it is that must be ‘sustained’ and
over what time frame … what must be sustained are sumbiosic actions and
attributes on the part of humans that create sumbiosity for all humans and all
other life forms indefinitely into the future.
Sumbiosic: Those cumulative types
of active and purposive relationships and attributes created by humans that
enhance mutual interdependence and mutual benefit for all living beings so as
to conserve and maximise a state of sumbiosity.
{Greek sumbiosis, companionship, Greek sumbios = living together, Greek bios = life, Greek suffix ic = adjective form of
sumbiosity, Pronunciation: ‘soom-bi-o-sic’}
Use, for example: “By actively growing and nurturing native species of
plants in his garden, Glenn developed a sumbiosic relationship with the birds
of his region.”
Sumbiosic Development: A process of
active invention and creation on the part of humans to achieve and conserve a
state of sumbiosity where humans and other life forms can live together indefinitely
in mutually supporting relationships. A form of development that has sumbiosity
as its goal or end state.
‘Sustainable development’ as a term is inadequate because it also fails
to define what it is to be sustained. Hence we have tortured issues like
‘sustainable growth’ or ‘sustainable mining’.
Use, for example: “The commencement of sumbiosic development has seen
the exponential increase in the use of biomimicry in technological
design.”
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Cognate
Concepts
Symbiosis, Symbionment,
Symbiocene (used mainly in the biological and biophysical contexts)
Symbiosis: Interaction
between two different organisms living in close physical association, typically
to the advantage of both. Also, a relationship
of mutual benefit or dependence.
[Greek sumbiosis, companionship, Greek sumbioun, to live together, Greek sumbios, living together. Greek bios, life.]
Symbionment = the combination
of natural and built environments as created by evolution and sumbiosic
development… what we live in (formerly called ‘the environment’)
Symbiocene = the era or
epoch that we will live in if we have sumbiosic development creating sumbiosity.
