COP30 | Giving Life to the Biome: The Planet’s Circulation and the Metabolic Future of Humanity

First-Person Consciousness

I am 18.
When I walk barefoot after the rain, I can feel the pulse beneath me.
The soil exhales.
Roots, worms, and water move as if whispering together.

It’s not imagination — it’s interconnection.
I realize that what I call “nature” is not outside of me.
It’s a living body that includes me.
I am a vessel in its circulation —
a single heartbeat in the great body of the biome.

1. The Biome as a Living Organism

Every biome — Amazon, Cerrado, Atlantic Forest —
is not a place, but a physiology.

Its rivers are arteries,
its soils are skin and gut,
its winds are respiration,
and its biodiversity is the immune system of Earth.

When we fragment a biome,
we sever the planet’s blood vessels.
When we pollute its waters,
we thicken its bloodstream with toxins.

A forest cut in half cannot breathe fully.
A river in silence cannot think.

To give life to the biome is to restore planetary circulation.

2. The Flow of Life and the Law of Connection

In both bodies and ecosystems,
life exists only where there is flow —
water, oxygen, carbon, information.

When flow stops, decay begins.
That’s why sustainability is not a policy;
it’s physiology.

Rivers, mycelium, neurons — all obey the same geometry of life:
branching networks designed for distribution and feedback.

At COP30, this insight becomes political:
the health of a nation must mirror the health of its biomes.
Economies must circulate energy and information
the way forests circulate nutrients and meaning.

3. Pachamama’s Circulatory System

Pachamama — the living Earth — is a vast metabolic circuit.
Her oceans regulate temperature;
her forests manage oxygen and carbon;
her soils digest the fallen and give birth to the new.

Humans are the capillaries of her awareness.
We build cities, share knowledge, and feel —
not to dominate, but to sense for her.

Every act of care is a red blood cell of consciousness.
Every regenerative action reopens a blocked artery in her body.

4. Restoring the Arteries: Corridors of Life

For decades we treated conservation as isolation —
protecting fragments of forest like organs in jars.

But life doesn’t thrive in isolation; it thrives in connection.
To give life to the biome means to rebuild the ecological corridors
that let genes, species, and waters circulate freely again.

Riparian forests are the arteries of the land.
Pollinators are the neurotransmitters of evolution.
Every living bridge we restore
is a synapse reconnected in the planet’s brain.

Without circulation, there is no consciousness.

5. APUS and the Sense of Belonging

In Amerindian knowledge, APUS means the extension of the body’s perception into the landscape.
It is the proprioception of the mountains, the awareness of belonging through place.

Through APUS, we rediscover that the biome is not property but body.
To plant a tree is to heal one’s own limb.
To care for a river is to restore one’s bloodstream.

Giving life to the biome means awakening APUS in all citizens —
a consciousness that transcends consumption
and anchors identity in reciprocity.

6. DREX Citizen and Carbon Plus: The Planet’s Financial Circulation

In the metabolic future,
the Central Bank acts as the heart of the national metabolism.
It does not accumulate — it circulates.

The DREX Citizen provides the daily flow of life:
a basic metabolic pulse ensuring dignity.
The Carbon Plus acts as adaptive feedback:
a reward for regenerative acts that sustain the biome.

But DREX and Carbon Plus can only flow
where the municipal metabolism is balanced —
where waste is recycled, water is respected,
and the soil is alive.

The Central Bank should therefore release Carbon Credits
only to territories that prove Zero Waste and Biome Restoration Programs.

This is economic homeostasis —
fiscal policy as planetary physiology.

7. Biomes as Neural Networks

From orbit, the world’s forests resemble a colossal brain —
a tangle of rivers, roots, and networks exchanging information.

Each biome is a neural region of Pachamama’s mind:
the Amazon for respiration,
the Cerrado for regulation,
the Andes for memory,
the oceans for emotional balance.

Human societies act as neural clusters,
responsible for maintaining coherence among these regions.

Destroying a biome is like damaging a lobe of the brain —
it diminishes planetary cognition.

Restoration, then, is not preservation — it is neurological repair.

8. From Carbon to Consciousness

The carbon cycle is the memory loop of Earth.
Photosynthesis writes; respiration reads.
Together they form the syntax of life.

When we restore forests,
we restore not only oxygen but meaning.
We allow the planet to remember herself again.

That is the ultimate aim of COP30 —
to rewrite humanity’s role
from consumer to co-author
of the planet’s living metabolism.

9. The Future of Research: From Narratives to Evidence

For centuries, Western science rowed through inherited narratives —
believing that man was separate,
that the Earth was inert,
that progress meant extraction.

Decolonial neuroscience and ecology now pole the ground,
touching the materiality of life —
measuring the real flows of energy, emotion, and cooperation.

To study a biome is to study consciousness itself —
distributed, rhythmic, and embodied.

10. COP30 — The Planet Breathes Again

Belém 2025 must be remembered
as the summit where humanity stopped rowing through narratives
and began touching the ground of evidence.

We are not here to save the planet —
we are the planet awakening.

The biome is the body of consciousness.
DREX is its pulse.
Carbon Plus is its reward.
APUS is its proprioception.

To give life to the biome
is to remember that we were never outside it.
We were always the cells,
the breath,
and the thought
of a living Earth.

And now, she breathes again — through us.

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