Bela Mondo

Imagining a more beautiful world.

Filthy Lucre

After the basic need for survival and procreation, our next essential activity is possibly trading. Before money existed, humans had to carry goods (like a bag of cereals or half a pig, etc.) to exchange and also the right amount of merchandise to exchange with other goods. Not very convenient! Read more →

Parasitic vs Symbiotic

What are We? Taking the perspective that the planet we are on is Gaia (self-actuating organism), is our interaction with it parasitic, or symbiotic? To answer that question it might be useful to revisit the meaning of the two words. For the purpose of this post, we could use simpler definitions. Read more →

Natural Resistance Part II

{ The first part of this post is here: Part I } - The White Elephant In this part of the post, we address some “difficult” concepts. Any idea that has been in existence for a long time tend to get enshrined as an absolute tenet. Because we are looking at natural resistance, it is useful to look at what actually happens in nature. Read more →

Natural Resistance Part I

- WTF is Herd Immunity Let us be topical. It is October 2020 and any adult living through this year is unlikely to forget it. A phrase has emerged that is now chucked around everywhere, discussed and argued endlessly by “experts” and non-experts. Here, we will take it apart and look at it at its simplest level. Read more →