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title: 'Letter to the Environmental Profession: The Unthinking Environmental Revolution — Automation as Destiny'
slug: 'letter-unthinking-environmental-revolution'
date: 2026-05-13
type: 'letter'
status: 'published'
tags: ['enviroai', 'whitehead']
abstract: 'August 2025 letter to the environmental profession arguing that Whitehead''s Law of Unthinking is not aphorism but thermodynamic imperative—Earth''s life-support systems are unraveling while decision-making institutions drown in data.'
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author: 'Jed Anderson'
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original_date: 2025-08-02
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August 2025 letter to the environmental profession arguing that Whitehead's Law of Unthinking is not aphorism but thermodynamic imperative—Earth's life-support systems are unraveling while decision-making institutions drown in data.

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