about

My background is in the fine arts and performing arts, environmental philosophy, and environmental sustainability studies, and I’ve been involved in the field of global catastrophic and existential risk since around 2018. This field is focused on mitigating extreme threats to civilization and the biosphere, such as from ecological overshoot, nuclear war, pandemics, biological weapons, and novel technologies like artificial intelligence. Related topics include reducing human and nonhuman suffering, advancing positive values and moral progress, and positively influencing the long-term future. The Metacrisis is an overarching framework of the totality and complexity of the world’s problem landscape, and is a way to refer to our historical moment in which global thresholds have been crossed, placing us in a new state of risk.

My approach to these issues emphasize holistic, systemic change, and I aim to contribute to mitigate the Metacrisis motivated by an ecocentric worldview. This means I see moral value across the entire natural world and that I aim to contribute to further the well-being and flourishing of the terrestrial ecosphere, all its inhabitants, and its capacity for good, across time and space. I see the global ecosystem of Earth as what should be considered the primary moral subject in our ethical thinking, as its welfare preconditions the welfare of all life and the existence of other moral values that do or might matter.

In addition to the overall Metacrisis framework, I focus particularly on risks associated with climate change, ecological overshoot, and AI, and I care deeply about nonhuman welfare. I am also fascinated by a potential long-term future beyond this planet and wrote my thesis on environmental ethics in outer space. I believe risks can best be mitigated through measures grounded in the systemics, interdependencies, and underlying drivers of global catastrophic and existential risks, and I think human moral values is one important feature in such underlying drivers of risk, and of the counterpart of moral good optimization. Further, and perhaps in contrast to traditional stands in ecocentric ethics, my approach to emerging technologies is indeed cautious, perhaps skeptical, but not opposing. I welcome a moral reconciliation of the ecosphere and the technosphere.

I live on a Randøy 29 traditional sailboat in Norway together with my polar sled dogs, and spend most of my time out in nature.