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The original was posted on /r/collapse by /u/Less_Antelope_1720 on 2025-11-06 01:01:32+00:00.
I want to share a hypothesis and get critique from people who study ecology, systems theory, anthropology, or collapse dynamics.
In multicellular organisms, cancer is defined by:
• uncontrolled growth
• consumption of resources beyond sustainable replenishment
• loss of feedback regulation
• attempts to spread beyond its originating environment
When we zoom out to a planetary scale, human civilization appears to be exhibiting similar behavior:
• exponential population + consumption increase
• resource extraction exceeding regeneration rates
• disruption of ecological feedback loops
• attempts to expand beyond Earth (Mars colonization as metastasis analogy)
This is not a moral statement, but a systems-pattern comparison.
If this analogy holds, climate instability and biosphere disruption may represent the Earth’s self-balancing response — similar to how a body attempts to suppress cancerous growth.
Full draft document here:
I’m looking for critique, counterpoints, and any academic frameworks that parallel this analogy (complexity science, thermodynamics, ecological economics, etc.).