The Modern Western state is characterized by unmediated individual access to wellness, health, safety and liberal human rights. The Newtonian conception of space and time makes formal room for a discursive public area with the citizen and the public institutes in the margin, while participation and ethical responsibility is a prejudice of good citizenship. It is a necessary condition of consistency and coherence of the nation. To date, global migration and multiculturalism threaten those necessary basic conditions of Western states´ political equilibrium. To challenge the actual global phenomena national states transform into virtual places of fear dominated by cybernetics, digital bureaucracy while citizen's identity is mirrored by the efficiency and unisexual beauty ideal of cyborgs. The substantive conception of technology is government's tool box to realize the cyberstate while citizen reduce to "cytizen".In order to escape from this global grey, we propose a different conception of space and time namely the Leibnizian conception of pluralistic independent participating worlds. Moreover, we modify Leopold's Land-Ethics by introducing the transpersonal identification claim of Warwick Fox inside the common Land so-called eco-homeland while the care for the foreigner serves as paradigmatic core attitude to all participants of the eco-homeland. So we constitute a common eco-refuge, similar to the ideas of Bookchinś eco-anarchistic ideas but avoiding his dialectic ideal conception of the Land and its participants.
<p>Remediation of climate change induced by anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gasses and<br>it precursors is the main focus today. However, less known is that the environment may also<br>be subjected to relatively fast geological dynamical phenomena such as the isostatic uplift of<br>Fennoscandia, parts of Canada and northwestern Russia. This uplift affects the archipelago<br>along the coast of southwestern Finland and Sweden and causes the relocation of human<br>activities.<br>In this study we investigate the on-ground observed regression of the Gulf of Bothnia on the<br>coasts of southwestern Finland and its implications on the country-side activities in the<br>framework of the eco-development paradigm. We focus our study on the neighbourhood of<br>the Nordsund peninsula (60&#176;40&#8217;30&#8221;N, 21&#176;37&#8217;14&#8221;E) between Keikvesi and Katavakarinselk&#228;,<br>representative for the whole Finnish archipelago with an average local isostatic uplift of 9 mm<br>per year (5 mm in the South and 14 mm in the Merenkurkku area. The Nordsund peninsula<br>contains a former bay of the Bothnia Sea, called Mustalahti, which is reduced to a lake since<br>the direct way out of inner land precipitation to the open sea disappeared in the 1980s.<br>We show that remotely sensed data on vegetation and surface wetness confirms this fast sea<br>regression and the silting-up of the nearby lakes that drain precipitation to the Gulf. The<br>changing of the Mustalahti over time and its vegetation is expressed in terms of Normalized<br>Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and the Normalized Difference Wetness Index (NDWI),<br>derived from Landsat 7 data for May, 12 th 2000 and for Landsat 8 for April, 23 rd 2019<br>characterized by a 30 m x 30 m pixel resolution. We discuss this changing coastline in the<br>framework of the Eco-Development paradigm which may rebalance nature, environment,<br>humans and culture. This paradigm is a valid alternative against the past and present-day<br>socio-economical dominant approach that contributed to the accelerated change of the Earth&#8217;s<br>climate.</p>
<p>It is straightforward to analyse Earth&#180;s fitness in terms of controlling and governing global warming due to human emissions of greenhouse gasses. We make room, however, for Earth&#180;s entropy production as criterion for ecosystems. Indeed, it is a remarkable claim of Nobel Prize winner Roger Penrose to explain life as the decelerating force of earth&#180;s production of entropy. The amount of earth&#180;s entropy production is included in the quantity of emitted energy in the form of long wave or thermal radiation governed by the Stefan-Boltzmann law about the radiance of black bodies. Here we want to analyse how biodiversity is a substantial parameter to explain the decline of the Earth&#180;s entropy production.</p> <p>In the field of biodiversity Stephan Hubbel formulated the Unified Neutral Theory of Individual Migration of Life as an alternative to the widely accepted niche competition of species theory. According to Hubbel, species abundance is lognormally distributed within an ecosystem after dynamical equilibrium is reached. We examine the drift shift of species within neighbouring ecosystems by analysing the day (DLSTG) and night land surface temperature (NLSTG) gradient.&#160; By restricting the examined area to a honeycomb with cells of 1 km&#178; the assumption of constant atmospheric pressure can be assumed and in consequence the enthalpy is reduced to the entropy variation. The latter can be derived from remotely-sensed mean day and night land surface temperatures (LST).</p> <p>By interpreting the entropy variation in terms of the statistical Shannon entropy formula wherein we import the lognormal distribution of species abundance, the entropy variation in the studied time interval is proportional to the difference of the natural logarithm of the respective standard deviations of the former and the latter species distribution function. Increased (decreased) entropy corresponds to a negative (positive) rate of biodiversity of the study area.</p> <p>Hubbel&#180;s area meta-community dynamics and the entropy production of the area under consideration and its surroundings provide a diversity number within the area. By integrating the mosaic of ecosystems over an extended almost isolated area (peninsula, insula, subcontinent) the decline or increase of entropy production gives a substantial support for Earth&#180;s fitness for biological life. Preliminary, we aim at applying MODIS 1 km&#178; day and night LST data on the area of South-western Finland to explore the idea of entropy variations.</p>
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