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Say the environment is for scientists and policy specialists.

The saying draws oxygen from a substrate the speaker did not make. Water filtered through ground the speaker did not maintain. Food grown in soil the speaker did not tend. A body held at temperature by a climate the speaker did not stabilise.

Your lungs are coupled to the atmosphere. Your gut to a microbiome the substrate produced. Your metabolism to food chains that run through soil, water, plant and animal. You have been substrate-coupled at every coupling you have ever run.

There is no neutral ground. You are standing on it.

This is the short edition of Ø Applications — a summary. Where a step is compressed here, the original carries it in full. The original book (PDF) · This edition (PDF)

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