This website is for people interested in:

• The big picture of what's happening right now on this planet
• The big picture of where the planet is headed
• The big picture of where our species is headed
• How all this is likely to end up
• What are the various options for learning, and for action
• How the "information revolution" might be used to help with this all
• Even just having some idea of what to do about all of this

The answers to these kinds of problems are not those that many people might expect.

They are not new, in the history of life on this planet.

In fact, looking back on what has happened before provides the key to understanding what is happening now, and what is about to happen.

Cycles of death and rebirth are as old as the universe, and are seen in the lives of stars and galaxies—at the furthest and oldest observable reaches of the cosmos. All civilisations eventually end. When will it be our turn? What should we take from our current modern life into the future, the real long-term future?

The world is currently locked onto a trajectory that will bring it to a very different place than our familiar modern high-tech industrial civilisation.

What will we bring to that future?

Where Are We Headed?

This will be updated soon...

Terrestrial Vertebrate Biomass, 10,000 BC to Now.

The graph above shows changes in the amount of land-dwelling mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians since the dawn of human civilisation, along with the growth of our own species, and our domesticated animals.

If you imagine the right-hand side of this graph continuing into the future, how long might it take before all the wild animals are gone, and replaced by humans and our livestock?

So What's Next?

Ark.au is currently still in its infancy. A lot more is coming soon...

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