It Builds Itself: Biosphere Earth The BioIntegrity Podcast

We are rebooting The Value of Biosphere Earth podcast series, starting with a focus on the meaning of the word, biosphere. In this episode, author/researcher Chris Searles reads an extremely-well cited synopsis of the academic research on why other-Life, Earth’s biodiversity of plants, animals, fungi, microbes, etc., is the most valuable and intelligent thing in the known universe. (Citations below.)  A STACK… all of the elements of a system, creates our ability to live in the universe. More on this in podcast #3 in this series, Ecosystem Services.
Defining the "Software Stack" analogyThe Human Life-Support System is essentially (top down): 
    a) Stuff we need: Food, Clothes, Fuel, Atmosphere, Freshwater, etc., generated by:
    b) Other macro life: Plants, Animals, Wilderness Ecosystems, and
    c) Micro life: Protista, Soils, Fungi, Microbes, Microbiomes, and their interactions with
    d) The geosphere: Rocks, Minerals, Chemicals, Climate Conditions (non-living elements). 
Read The Value of Biosphere Earth, A Self-Generating Stack: 
by Chris Searles, on Google Drive: https://tinyurl.com/VOBE2-stackVisit our website for more: https://biointegrity.net/valueAbout Chris Searles
director, BioIntegrity.net / exec. editor, AllCreation.orgother notable research: The Systemic Climate Solution Program0:00  Welcome  
1:30  Paragraph 1, Biosphere Earth  
3:00  Paragraph 2, Smarter than our Computers (the software stack analogy)
          "Stack" visual: https://tinyurl.com/VOBE2-stack5:00  Life itself is miraculous. The life-support system built itself over the last 4 billions of years
6:25  Chris goes through the diagram in paper. Our life-support system = inanimate elements of Earth (minerals & climate conditions) + interactive, intelligent, relational life-layers, which ultimately led to and presently create our everyday life-support system, (aka. Nature, as we know it).7:45 This planetary life-support system is EXCEPTIONALLY RESOURCEFUL: self-integrating, adaptive, self-healing, self-correcting. It appears to always be going towards more diversity of life (more biodiversity) when climate conditions are favorable. 
CitationsImages and Oxford  • “The Pale Orange Dot” (Microbial Earth circa three billion years ago) – Zubritsky. NASA Team Looks to Ancient Earth First to Study Hazy Exoplanets. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. (2017) https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/nasa-team-looks-to-ancient-earth-first-to-study-hazy-exoplanets  •  “The Blue Marble” (Biosphere Earth today) -- Stockli, Nelson. Earth The Blue Marble. NASA Visible Earth. (2000) https://visibleearth.nasa.gov/images/54388/earth-the-blue-marble • “Definition of biosphere”. Oxford University Press. Lexico.com. 30 September 2021. https://www.lexico.com/definition/biosphere
No other planet known to contain organisms after thousands surveyed • NASA Exoplanet Archive. Infrared Analysis and Processing Center, California Institute of Technology. [Retrieved 20 August 2021.] https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu• University of Puerto Rico, Arecibo. Habitable Exoplanets Catalog. Planetary Habitability Catalog, University of Puerto Rico, Arecibo. [Retrieved 29 September 2021.] http://phl.upr.edu/projects/habitable-exoplanets-catalog.• Kaufman, M. Life, Here and Beyond. Astrobiology at NASA. [Retrieved 17 August 2020.] https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/about/
Science has established that the foundation for human existence is simple and complex life • Chimeleski, Kolter. Microbes gave us life. Stat. (2017) https://www.statnews.com/2017/12/21/microbes-human-life/• Ellison, et al. Trees, forests, water: Cool insights for a hot world. Global Environmental Change 43: 51-61. (2017) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2017.01.002• Malmstrom, C. Ecologists Study the Interactions of Organisms and Their Environment. Nature Education Knowledge 3(10):88. (2010) https://nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/ecologists-st