Andrew Steele
@emergencestories.bsky.social
Believing Visionary Story - changing how we tell stories, the story pattern, the content - can help humanity evolve by example, can offer our young hope for their future through storying our potential. To story beyond who we are now.
If people cannot story a fictional paradigm of higher thought, action, and response, if always the story patterns must be weaved with such limited vision as manufactured drama (including manufactured romance and comedy), manufactured tension, violence - fights, guns, swards (and the like)…1/…
November 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
If people cannot story a fictional paradigm of higher thought, action, and response, if always the story patterns must be weaved with such limited vision as manufactured drama (including manufactured romance and comedy), manufactured tension, violence - fights, guns, swards (and the like)…1/…
For generations we have been trained, through narrow-minded adds and stories, to mindlessly consume, without regard for life and planet.
We can all have freestanding homes, a white picket fence, a dog and a cat, or more if we wish, a car or more, whatever we want-can afford. …
We can all have freestanding homes, a white picket fence, a dog and a cat, or more if we wish, a car or more, whatever we want-can afford. …
November 7, 2025 at 6:06 PM
For generations we have been trained, through narrow-minded adds and stories, to mindlessly consume, without regard for life and planet.
We can all have freestanding homes, a white picket fence, a dog and a cat, or more if we wish, a car or more, whatever we want-can afford. …
We can all have freestanding homes, a white picket fence, a dog and a cat, or more if we wish, a car or more, whatever we want-can afford. …
Too few understand the consequences of global warming and destruction of nature.
Through hearts and minds of young explorers living Earth and Galactic adventures written for young people we vision our human potential.
The Emergence Stories
Story to story beyond who we are now.
Through hearts and minds of young explorers living Earth and Galactic adventures written for young people we vision our human potential.
The Emergence Stories
Story to story beyond who we are now.
October 16, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Too few understand the consequences of global warming and destruction of nature.
Through hearts and minds of young explorers living Earth and Galactic adventures written for young people we vision our human potential.
The Emergence Stories
Story to story beyond who we are now.
Through hearts and minds of young explorers living Earth and Galactic adventures written for young people we vision our human potential.
The Emergence Stories
Story to story beyond who we are now.
If advanced beings (clearly far more advanced than we are) from a distant solar system arrived to initiate first contact, are we proud of who we are?
October 5, 2025 at 12:45 PM
If advanced beings (clearly far more advanced than we are) from a distant solar system arrived to initiate first contact, are we proud of who we are?
What to do if they will not listen:
Have a seat. Be quiet, be calm. Observe entropy run its course.
Have a seat. Be quiet, be calm. Observe entropy run its course.
July 11, 2025 at 9:13 PM
What to do if they will not listen:
Have a seat. Be quiet, be calm. Observe entropy run its course.
Have a seat. Be quiet, be calm. Observe entropy run its course.
The United States is moving ever further toward a survival-of-the-fittest society.
July 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The United States is moving ever further toward a survival-of-the-fittest society.
We humans have plateaued, including in the stories we tell.
July 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
We humans have plateaued, including in the stories we tell.
When weaponization is increasing while international & human rights laws are being abandoned, when destruction of nature roars on, when Earth continues to warm at an alarming rate, a rate that is increasing, bringing a child into such a world is an Extraordinary Action of Hope.
July 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM
When weaponization is increasing while international & human rights laws are being abandoned, when destruction of nature roars on, when Earth continues to warm at an alarming rate, a rate that is increasing, bringing a child into such a world is an Extraordinary Action of Hope.
Dystopia is not a white or black state, not off or on; Dystopia comes in measured phases.
At present, the human-built world is experiencing an advanced dystopian state - complete failure is possible.
Your child/children, our children, may not survive complete failure.
At present, the human-built world is experiencing an advanced dystopian state - complete failure is possible.
Your child/children, our children, may not survive complete failure.
June 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Dystopia is not a white or black state, not off or on; Dystopia comes in measured phases.
At present, the human-built world is experiencing an advanced dystopian state - complete failure is possible.
Your child/children, our children, may not survive complete failure.
At present, the human-built world is experiencing an advanced dystopian state - complete failure is possible.
Your child/children, our children, may not survive complete failure.
In our stories, in the fiction we read, in the movies we watch, how we depict ourselves, humanity, we play out, day to day, every day, in real time, in real life. We should try some new kinds of stories, to represent a humanity who is capable of evolving beyond who we are now.
June 9, 2025 at 9:54 AM
In our stories, in the fiction we read, in the movies we watch, how we depict ourselves, humanity, we play out, day to day, every day, in real time, in real life. We should try some new kinds of stories, to represent a humanity who is capable of evolving beyond who we are now.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
What is the point of being a self-aware, creative species who can see back in cosmic time if we won’t care about life beyond our own noses?
What is the point of being a self-aware, creative species who can see back in cosmic time if we won’t care about life beyond our own noses?
‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects
A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides
www.theguardian.com
June 3, 2025 at 9:09 AM
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
What is the point of being a self-aware, creative species who can see back in cosmic time if we won’t care about life beyond our own noses?
What is the point of being a self-aware, creative species who can see back in cosmic time if we won’t care about life beyond our own noses?
Each child and any person killed, or just abused or neglected, left out of life in any way, in Gaza, or Sudan, or Ukraine, or anywhere, is a cheep shot, a cheep shot that makes each and every other human life cheep. Each child lost is one less protection of someone you love.
May 31, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Each child and any person killed, or just abused or neglected, left out of life in any way, in Gaza, or Sudan, or Ukraine, or anywhere, is a cheep shot, a cheep shot that makes each and every other human life cheep. Each child lost is one less protection of someone you love.
Something to consider, I think, is that as humanity may or may not emerge from these ways we are harming each other and nature and planet, beyond our planet is a wondrous existence, the vastness of which we have only just begun to grasp. Knowing this, and if long into our future we have become…
April 16, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Something to consider, I think, is that as humanity may or may not emerge from these ways we are harming each other and nature and planet, beyond our planet is a wondrous existence, the vastness of which we have only just begun to grasp. Knowing this, and if long into our future we have become…
Money is a Rube Goldberg method of accomplishing a task.
April 7, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Money is a Rube Goldberg method of accomplishing a task.
Reposted by Andrew Steele
We need to break down the silos between addressing climate change, biodiversity loss, and human suffering.
Fortunately, the solutions are often complementary -- and we can sometimes find "win-win-win" opportunities to address all three.
More from Project Drawdown:
drawdown.org/insights/we-...
Fortunately, the solutions are often complementary -- and we can sometimes find "win-win-win" opportunities to address all three.
More from Project Drawdown:
drawdown.org/insights/we-...
We need synergies, not silos, to solve humanity’s greatest challenges
Climate change is often framed as humanity’s greatest challenge. And for good reason. Every fraction of a degree of warming – the planet is currently about 1.2°C (2.2°F) warmer than before the Industr...
drawdown.org
March 6, 2025 at 3:51 PM
We need to break down the silos between addressing climate change, biodiversity loss, and human suffering.
Fortunately, the solutions are often complementary -- and we can sometimes find "win-win-win" opportunities to address all three.
More from Project Drawdown:
drawdown.org/insights/we-...
Fortunately, the solutions are often complementary -- and we can sometimes find "win-win-win" opportunities to address all three.
More from Project Drawdown:
drawdown.org/insights/we-...
Money is a Rube Goldberg method of accomplishing a task. Humanity will fail to evolve an advanced civilization until they are smart enough to move beyond the need for money.
February 23, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Money is a Rube Goldberg method of accomplishing a task. Humanity will fail to evolve an advanced civilization until they are smart enough to move beyond the need for money.
With many (though apparently not enough) individual exceptions, we humans are adding up to be a violent, irrational species desperately in need of further evolution before overshoot does us in - I see we have such potential.
February 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
With many (though apparently not enough) individual exceptions, we humans are adding up to be a violent, irrational species desperately in need of further evolution before overshoot does us in - I see we have such potential.
What is the story we want to tell the universe about Earth humans?
February 19, 2025 at 7:41 PM
What is the story we want to tell the universe about Earth humans?
Imagine if we were contacted by beings capable of interstellar travel, requesting to visit our planet, sending us information that showed they were highly advanced - no illness, no poverty, no war, environmentally-ecologically sound… How would we feel about who we are, our cruelty, our destruction?
February 19, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Imagine if we were contacted by beings capable of interstellar travel, requesting to visit our planet, sending us information that showed they were highly advanced - no illness, no poverty, no war, environmentally-ecologically sound… How would we feel about who we are, our cruelty, our destruction?
Do we not have an advanced civilization because humans are limited - creatively/intellectually/emotionally - or are humans limited as such because we have been kept by a relative few who lack creativity, intellectual-capacity, emotional-maturity (vision) from establishing an advanced civilization?
February 11, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Do we not have an advanced civilization because humans are limited - creatively/intellectually/emotionally - or are humans limited as such because we have been kept by a relative few who lack creativity, intellectual-capacity, emotional-maturity (vision) from establishing an advanced civilization?
Humans have completed the transition from survival of the fittest to survival of the luckiest. Which will not turn out well for the luckiest either, for intelligence inherently exists in the fittest not the luckiest. Which is evident in that the luckiest are at the forefront of our destruction.
January 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Humans have completed the transition from survival of the fittest to survival of the luckiest. Which will not turn out well for the luckiest either, for intelligence inherently exists in the fittest not the luckiest. Which is evident in that the luckiest are at the forefront of our destruction.
Reposted by Andrew Steele
Addressing climate change is like playing chess.
We need to use all the pieces, employ multiple strategies, and see the whole board.
(But, unlike chess, we have to play this game collaboratively to win the game in the end.)
globalecoguy.org/we-need-to-s...
We need to use all the pieces, employ multiple strategies, and see the whole board.
(But, unlike chess, we have to play this game collaboratively to win the game in the end.)
globalecoguy.org/we-need-to-s...
We Need to See the Whole Board to Stop Climate Change
Addressing climate change is like playing chess. We need to use all the pieces, employ multiple strategies, and always see the whole board.
globalecoguy.org
January 14, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Addressing climate change is like playing chess.
We need to use all the pieces, employ multiple strategies, and see the whole board.
(But, unlike chess, we have to play this game collaboratively to win the game in the end.)
globalecoguy.org/we-need-to-s...
We need to use all the pieces, employ multiple strategies, and see the whole board.
(But, unlike chess, we have to play this game collaboratively to win the game in the end.)
globalecoguy.org/we-need-to-s...
Consider among all the children of the world who have, are and will suffer and or die of neglect, of abuse, of accidental or intentional killing, humanity may be losing such a genius mind who would have developed, say, something in the way of warp drive technology.
January 7, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Consider among all the children of the world who have, are and will suffer and or die of neglect, of abuse, of accidental or intentional killing, humanity may be losing such a genius mind who would have developed, say, something in the way of warp drive technology.
Viruses are the way they are.
Mosquitos are the way they are.
Rats are the way they are.
Hyenas are the way they are.
Chimpanzees are… you know.
We do not expect any more of each life form than they are.
So humans are the way they are too - human nature - as we collectively destroy everything.
Mosquitos are the way they are.
Rats are the way they are.
Hyenas are the way they are.
Chimpanzees are… you know.
We do not expect any more of each life form than they are.
So humans are the way they are too - human nature - as we collectively destroy everything.
December 30, 2024 at 1:13 AM
Viruses are the way they are.
Mosquitos are the way they are.
Rats are the way they are.
Hyenas are the way they are.
Chimpanzees are… you know.
We do not expect any more of each life form than they are.
So humans are the way they are too - human nature - as we collectively destroy everything.
Mosquitos are the way they are.
Rats are the way they are.
Hyenas are the way they are.
Chimpanzees are… you know.
We do not expect any more of each life form than they are.
So humans are the way they are too - human nature - as we collectively destroy everything.
To love my children thoroughly…
I must love all children, all children all over the world, those with us now and all those yet to be born, and protect them if I can,
and I must love all life: I must love nature intact; I must love Earth herself…
to love my children thoroughly.
I must love all children, all children all over the world, those with us now and all those yet to be born, and protect them if I can,
and I must love all life: I must love nature intact; I must love Earth herself…
to love my children thoroughly.
December 22, 2024 at 7:38 PM
To love my children thoroughly…
I must love all children, all children all over the world, those with us now and all those yet to be born, and protect them if I can,
and I must love all life: I must love nature intact; I must love Earth herself…
to love my children thoroughly.
I must love all children, all children all over the world, those with us now and all those yet to be born, and protect them if I can,
and I must love all life: I must love nature intact; I must love Earth herself…
to love my children thoroughly.