Diagnoses

Tony Juniper's Just Earth

Just Earth comes at a particularly unjust and unearthly time. Mounting inequalities and crystallising environmental crises characterise the present day…

Nov 22, 2025 • Ted Theisinger

October 2025

A(G)I, The Great Divergence, and Technological Lock-In

AI boosters would likely point to Elvin’s thesis as a lesson to learn from; as a reason to accelerate the adoption and development of AI and AGI…

Oct 19, 2025 • Ted Theisinger

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Ecological Arbitration and the Universal Mind

If one envisions an overlapping of systems, much like we have in the human domain today, of legal, political, and economic structures, the necessary…

Oct 5, 2025 • Ted Theisinger

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August 2025

The Archbishops of AI

Whether they like it or not — and they surely do, given their zealous self-congratulatory antics — the leaders of big tech firms have been elevated to…

Aug 28, 2025 • Ted Theisinger

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June 2025

The $1.7 Trillion Elephant: Academia Has Yet to Buy Into the Private Nature Finance Story

My initial hypothesis, mirroring my anecdotal experience, was that discussion of private finance might be disproportionate to the need to scale up…

Jun 29, 2025 • Ted Theisinger

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Guy Shrubsole's The Lie of the Land

Surrounded by never-ending news-driven despondency, Guy Shrubsole’s The Lie of the Land proves a soothing balm — a roadmap of action calling for the…

Jun 15, 2025 • Ted Theisinger

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May 2025

The Enshittification of Nature and the Limits of State Intervention

Proponents of private solutions are backed by the (un)imaginative default of private capital — capital that holds the power of financial resource…

May 21, 2025 • Ted Theisinger

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December 2024

An Alternative Land Governance System for Scotland

The dichotomous approaches of communal and private can be married. Responding to the urgency of nature restoration and sociological realignment, their…

Dec 8, 2024 • Ted Theisinger

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Land Governance: The Case for Change

We stand at a point of phase change: land is being considered as more than an inanimate canvas to paint our desires on — valued both intrinsically and…

Dec 1, 2024 • Ted Theisinger

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November 2024

Private Purchase: The Solution to Scotland's Socio- and Ecological Challenges?

Famously the largest private landowners in the UK, Anders and Anne Povlsen have bought up parcels of land around Scotland to unapologetically commit…

Nov 24, 2024 • Ted Theisinger

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Community Land Ownership: The Solution to Scotland's Socio- and Ecological Challenges?

The communal approach to addressing Scotland’s socio- and ecological challenges is that of direct land acquisition: it involves communities purchasing…

Nov 17, 2024 • Ted Theisinger

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Success Criteria: Evaluating Land Governance Structures

We are experiencing a phase change in land use classes: from typically extractive forms, expressed by raw material or energy production, to restorative…

Nov 10, 2024 • Ted Theisinger

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