Tiers of Power

Like-power is required to counter another power, or a greater intensity and quantity of a lesser power which is up against a greater power. On a smaller scale, or a lower tier of power in nature, there is no real challenge or counter to human material forces. Industrial humanity is too powerful; it has truly mastered its domain. It requires scaling up and combining to counter such a power. It took the various coalitions of nations to combine and counter Napoleon's France, and of course all of the other alliances throughout history to counter those ascendant great powers, and so it will take the earth itself, or the ecological totality and its dissenting human allies to rise and counter industrial humanity.