An additional reason for the materials revolution I allude to is that dependence on materials based on oil has become hugely risky in an era of warfare and terrorism connected to its control and sale. Liberation from fossil carbon (death) and its replacement by living carbon (life) as the material foundation for human existence solves the climate warming problem, international petro-insecurity, and the irrational hunt for finite and rare elements as components of an economy driven by petronecrophilia. The sumbonomy makes possible a post-scarcity society based on the energy and materials foundation of sunlight, plants, and microorganisms.

[Draft material for a new book on the Symbiocene]