To stay healthy, organisms need to protect themselves from threats such as predation, storms and desiccation. This is why animals build shelter. Cooperation often provides safety, as in many symbiotic relationships between species, or in herds, swarms or schools. Competition and degradation always lurk. Life is balancing between constructive (development, growth) and destructive (death and breakdown) forces.
What factors create a safe space in which the initiative can develop? Which actors ensure this?
But also: what factors threaten that safe space? Which actors do?