Merlin Sheldrake - How Fungi Make our Worlds

Most fungi live out of sight, yet they make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that support and sustain nearly all living systems. The symbiotic mycorrhizal networks formed by plants and fungi comprise an ancient life-support system that easily qualifies as one of the wonders of the living world. Yet climate change strategies, conservation agendas and restoration efforts overlook fungi and focus overwhelmingly on animals and plants. This is a problem: the destruction of underground fungal networks accelerates both climate change and biodiversity loss and interrupts vital global nutrient cycles.
In this session, Merlin Sheldrake, the biologist and bestselling author of Entangled Life: How Fungi Make our World, drives home just how critically important fungi are and discuss the visionary work of the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN) and its efforts to map and protect the mycorrhizal fungal communities of the planet. He also presents cutting-edge research into the flow dynamics of carbon and nutrients within mycorrhizal fungal networks.
This keynote talk was delivered at the 2024 Bioneers Conference. To see more conference talks visit www.bioneers.o...

[@Shamannic.Landscaping]

Go Merlin! You rock! Your poetic book is my favorite of all time👍🏼🌿🍄

[@BettinaLiebstein]

I absolutely love Merlins enthusiasm and hope his message will be recieved in all the right places.

[@GeorgeBrabant]

ditto

[@ghostsofevolution]

I loved Merlin's book - yet this short presentation gave me an even larger sense of Wow! about fungi. At the very places where my own jaw dropped in wonder, I heard the audience gasp in the same way. Agency and choice emerge in fungal networks no less than in our own species, it turns out. I love being humbled by a life form that is sure to outlast our own. The images,, along with Merlin's beautiful voice and presentation style, made this presentation a classic to share and share again.

[@mirellajaber7704]

This IS SCIENCE, unlike the rest of it. Thank you for your work, and Thank YOU, Mother Nature, for being so wonderful and tolerant with us!

[@rhene1548]

Fascinating information!

[@philippedefossez3421]

“A mycelial network is a map of a fungus’s recent history and is a helpful reminder that all life-forms are in fact processes not things. The “you” of five years ago was made from different stuff than the “you” of today. Nature is an event that never stops. As William Bateson, who coined the word genetics, observed, “We commonly think of animals and plants as matter, but they are really systems through which matter is continually passing.” - Merlin Sheldrake, in "Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures."

[@jayalexandertilley]

Merlin!!! So great. I'm assuming you've read the Lilith's Brood trilogy by Octavia Butler. They talk all about Mycorrhizal Fungi.

[@Sorcy_1]

❤❤

[@SojourningAssembly]

How can I get involved I have been saying this for years 💕🦋🌸😎💫💯✨♾️

[@allanparker20]

Oh , wait , would that interrupt your funding?

[@isabelrayes1243]

Awesome thanks.