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Our Earthuman Ascent: A Major Evolutionary Transition in Twindividuality

Bouchard, Jean-Philippe. The Self-Organized Criticality Paradigm in Economics & Finance. arXiv:2407.10284. We came to this entry from Markus Aschwanden’s Power Laws Associated with Self-Organized Criticality paper (2505.00748) wherein his astronomic SOC findings can be seen to extend in kind from coronae to metabolisms to informatics. Herein a senior European theorist describes how this optimum natural phenomenon appears equally evident in hyperactive monetary commerce. See also Critical fragility socio-technical systems by Jose Moran, et al at arXiv:2307.03546 for another J-P B paper.

Self-Organized Criticality (SOC) is the mechanism by which complex systems spontaneously settle close to a critical edge between stability and chaos. In this short review, we discuss how SOC could offer a plausible solution to the excess volatility puzzle in financial markets. We argue that in general the quest for efficiency and the necessity of *resilience* may be mutually incompatible and thus require specific policy considerations.

Jean-Philippe Bouchaud is a French physicist, co-founder chairman of Capital Fund Management, adjunct professor at École Normale Supérieure and held the Bettencourt Innovation Chair at Collège de France in 2020.

Earth Earns: An Open CoCreative Earthropocene to Astropocene PediaVerse

Wunderling, Nico. et al. Wunderling, Nico, et al. Climate tipping point interactions and cascades. Earth System Dynamics. 15/1, 2024. Thirty-two Potsdam Institute for Climate Research and European environmentalists including Jonathan Donges provide an extensive study of what might happen if major local weather zones tipped over to a new phase and in some cascade fashion proceeded to impact each other. See also Tipping in an adaptive climate network model by Tom Bdolach, et al at arXiv:2505.04533 for a latest update.

Climate tipping elements are large-scale subsystems of the Earth that may transgress critical thresholds (tipping points) under global warming pressures, with substantial impacts on the biosphere and human societies. Frequently studied examples include the Greenland Ice Sheet, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), permafrost, monsoon systems, and the Amazon rainforest. Here, we survey the literature on climate tipping forces and find that many of them are destabilizing. We conclude that tipping points should be studied both in isolation, but also with regard cross-interactions. (Excerpt)

Moallemi, Enayat, et al. Entry points for driving systemic change toward a more sustainable future.. One Earth. May 20, 2025. In this new Cell journal, we cite this entry by Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia, Deakin University, Melbourne, Monash University and Cornell University environmental scholars as a good example of a comprehensive, sensible, reciprocal, two do list on the vital way to an Earthropocene Gaiability.

Achieving inclusive human development within planetary boundaries is an urgent and complex challenge. Here, we present nine integrated, theoretically informed and empirically grounded methods through which systemic change can be understood, initiated, and sustained. The entry points we found focus on momentum building, pathways to desirable futures, and the practical change across sectors and scales. This program can support more coherent policy design and inform decision-makers to shape sustainability agendas.

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