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Kevin Parker

Kevin Parker is a long-term activist working on behalf of Gaia, peace and justice

Where We Stand in the Climate Crisis: November 2025

The article explores climate risks, global emissions, and AI’s role in resilience—urging urgent action to avoid tipping points and secure a livable future.

The Large Language Model Landscape of November 2025

A Cambrian Month in AI It only took a month for the AI world to feel reborn. October 2025 came and went in a flash...

Ecocide: Criminalizing the Destruction of Our Shared Home

Criminalizing ecocide: Tracing its evolution, real-world impact, and legal strategies to establish it as an international crime against nature and humanity.

The Tragedy of Avian Flu: Charting the Panzootic That is Redrawing the World’s Flyways

News Update As of late October 2025, the H5N1 avian flu crisis has entered a tense new phase as the autumn bird migration puts Northern...

The Ubiquitous Empire: An Exploration of the World of Ants

The World of Ants: a ubiquitous empire of 20 quadrillion individuals. Explore their evolution, superorganism colonies, specialized societies, and ecological impact as global engineers.

The Edge of Existence: Near Death Experiences at the Intersection of Science and Mystery

When Pam Reynolds underwent a revolutionary brain surgery in 1991 that required her body temperature to be lowered to 60 degrees Fahrenheit and her...

The Testament of the Oak

Part I: The Long Inhale of Being The Dream within the Seed Before the first root, before the first leaf, there is the long, slow thought...

The Uncarved Block in the Datastream: From Cyberpunk Nihilism to Digital Daoism

Introduction: The Inevitable Dissolution of the Cyberpunk Paradigm The Cyberpunk paradigm, a fixture of speculative fiction for half a century, is defined by a fundamental...

Eastern Europe and Russia: The Forgotten Wilderness

1. Historical Baseline Pre-1750 Wilderness Extent The brown bear watched from the forest edge as Peter the Great's surveyors marked trees for his new capital. In...

AI Existential Risk: Why Tech Leaders Can’t Agree on Artificial Intelligence Safety

AI’s future splits: some predict utopia, others extinction. Tech leaders clash over safety, ethics, and control as harms already emerge.

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The Law of Laws: Theosophy and the Backbone of Kindness

"Is kindness merely a feeling, or is it a load-bearing structure for society? Kevin J Parker, author of 'The Backbone of Kindness: Restoring Our Oldest Virtue', explores the profound intersection of Theosophy and modern ethics, examining how compassion functions as the 'Law of laws' and the essential backbone of human arrangements."

The Reality of Global Warming

Explore the empirical reality of global warming right now. Uncover accelerating ocean heat, temperature overshoot pathways, and critical planetary tipping points.

Stonehenge: The Machine, the Landscape and the Making of a World

Hawkins's computer was too literal. But his instinct — that Stonehenge handled information — survives every test the sixty years since have thrown at it. An investigation through stone provenance, isotopes, ancient DNA and landscape archaeology, ending with a named, testable hypothesis: the Gathering Engine.

Smart City: The Word Finds an Owner

Cities ran sewers and traffic computers long before anyone sold them the word. Around 2008 “smart” acquired an owner. Four product cities show what it cost.

El Niño Explained: 2026 Impact & the Future Prognosis

Ocean temperatures hit a record 21.1°C in August, out of season. El Niño, climate change and what the hottest sea ever measured means for 2027

The Divine Within: Why I Keep Circling the Idea That the Sacred Is an Inside Job

The divine within: a personal reflection on Jung, mysticism, meditation and prayer, and why I still cannot decide whether the sacred is an inside job.

Commissioning Curiousity: Retraining the Our Social Media Echo Chamber to Serve Up Variety

Retraining Spotify revealed how AI recommendation algorithms narrow us — and why commissioning curiosity, not searching, is the literacy of the age.

The Compass and the Cosmos: Sacred Geometry

Sacred geometry, examined: the real history behind the ten forms, what nature actually does, and what physics has found in the shape of the universe.

The Greening of Riyadh Saudi Arabia

Riyadh is planting 7.5m trees and running a new metro against an Expo 2030 deadline. A look at the water, heat and money behind the desert city's greening

Ocean Plastic Pollution: Is the Tide Finally Turning?

Ocean plastic pollution is falling: 39% less on Australian coasts. The data, the clean-up technology and the policies proving change is possible

The Backbone of Kindness: Rekindling Our Oldest Virtue in Troubled Times

Kindness is not niceness. Kevin J. Parker argues it is civilisation's load-bearing structure—the backbone on which coexistence depends