Learn More About the Author of Earth’s Ecocide Novel Series

What is A Champoid?™

A ChampoidTM is a person who champions our humanoid species and protects Earth’s biosphere. Being a champoid goes beyond politics, law, economics, nationalism, or morality. It’s a determined way of thinking and acting, acknowledging the interconnectedness and universal consciousness of all things and working to protect and nourish Earth’s biosphere to ensure human survival.

A champoid views humanity as a species, one that needs to survive and has a definite role in the universe. It’s a perspective of humanity that a visiting alien species might harbor. It’s a view of humanity that transcends family, neighborhood, city, state, province, national, religious, racial, or cultural boundaries. It views Earth, the human species, and our role in the universe from many trillions of kilometers away, not 5, 500 or 5,000 kilometers away.

Through their beliefs and actions, champoids support all lifeforms and what some may call non-life. A champoid believes, for example, that Earth’s rare, balanced, fragile, priceless, and self-regulating biosphere is a living set of interrelated systems that makes life possible. We must protect our home. We have no other!

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A black t-shirt with the words " achampoid we must protect our home ".

You can buy these AChampoid t-shirts on ETSY.

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About the Author

David A. Collier, born in Lexington, Kentucky, earned his first two academic degrees at the University of Kentucky. After working in corporate America, he enrolled in a Ph.D. program at The Ohio State University. Upon earning his doctorate, he joined the faculty at Duke University and later taught in the business schools at the University of Virginia, The Ohio State University, Florida Gulf Coast University, and in the United Kingdom at the University of Warwick. Dr. Collier has taught undergraduates, MBAs, PhDs, and in executive programs.

After decades of authoring scholarly research articles, business cases, numerous best paper awards, five college textbooks, and almost 50,000 reads and 5,000 citations of some of his scholarly articles, according to ResearchGate, he wanted a new challenge—writing novels that make a difference.