[The principles of biological evolution and those of economic evolution
are not-overlapping.
The Third Landscape, a territory of diversity, therefore of evolution,
produces invention, opposes accumulation.
From a cultural point of view, the Third Landscape is referring to an
organized territory and in opposition to it.]
The ruling power,
undermined from inside, attempts to regain its wavering balance menaced by its
own drift. A multitude of counter-powers exercises pressure from the outside
and weakens, to an even greater extent the monolithic edifice based on the
belief in a unique economic and social system.
In spite of efforts
to consolidate the architecture of a system built on the sole mechanics of
material exchange and consumption, it crumbles.
[ - Consider the un-organization of the spaces of Third Landscape as a
vital principle, thanks to which, each organized system lets itself be passed
through by flashes of light.
In crumbling, it
joins the autonomous structures that contributed to its fall. It amalgamates
and undergoes a transformation at contact, helpless to impose its rule and
model, henceforth obsolete. This dispersed entity corresponds to an atomized
society obliged to invent new models of exchange, sharing and distribution for
material and immaterial goods.
During its life cycle,
the tree returns to the environment the energy it removes. Symbiotic man , by
adopting this model of operation, answers the question posed by the Planetary
Garden: « How to exploit diversity without destroying it? »
While the image of a
tree represents a strong model, stable and lasting, that of grass is closer to the fragile model, unstable and short-lived.
In reality, the two figures function in the same manner with regard to the
environment: by constant recycling of energy with no accumulation of waste
other than decomposable organic matter. (Vegetation, autotrophic, produces its
nourishment from solar energy and minerals resulting from the deterioration of
organic matter, rocks, etc.)
[Declare the territory of Third Landscape as a privileged place of the biological intelligence: an inclination to constantly reinvent oneself.]
[Declare the territory of Third Landscape as a privileged place of the biological intelligence: an inclination to constantly reinvent oneself.]
The totality of these
autonomous systems forms a « Milky Way », insuring its autonomy by
guaranteeing, for each entity:
-a short circuit of production and distribution
of goods of greatest necessity
-one or several local production centers for
energy permitting the systems to operate independently of any other such
system.
-Systematic recycling, direct or indirect, of by-products resulting
from the function of human society.
Furthermore, each
system exchanges with its neighbors, near or far, all immaterial (or highly
necessary) goods impossible or difficult to find locally, necessary for the
cultural enrichment of this atomized society. Such a series of distant
exchanges, with regard to immaterial goods, and, to a lesser extent material
goods impossible to find locally, appears in grey on the drawing, tying the
remote systems together.
These two models of
exchange - near and far - correspond to a new economy functioning on the model
of trees and grass where all taken in nature is restored with no qualitative
deterioration, no matter what the form and level of transformation of this
restitution. This new economy is characteristic of symbiotic Man.
A dead leaf on the ground is not waste , it is food.
