We Are From Earth
Why an obvious statement turns out to be the most useful thing we can say about ourselves, and why this project exists.
Every person who has ever lived came from the same place.
We divide Earth into nations, territories and identities. From far enough away, none of those lines exist.
There is one living world beneath us.
A journal about life on Earth and our place within it.
Science. Nature. People. Culture. Technology. Exploration. The past that made us and the futures we might build.
Recent stories.
This Is Home
A descent from deep space to a single living thing, and the argument that planetary systems and individual lives are the same story at different scales.
What Does a Mature Civilisation Look Like?
Our capability is compounding and our judgement is not. If maturity is the gap between what a civilisation can do and what it can handle doing, it is worth asking what closing that gap would actually require.
They Told Us To Look After It
Almost everyone half remembers that the visitors came with an environmental warning. A dated corpus of 2,721 contact accounts says otherwise, and what it says instead is stranger.
What does it mean to be a good ancestor?
- What makes a civilisation mature?
- Who owns a forest?
- What does a river remember?
- What disappears when a species disappears?
- What can Earth teach us about living elsewhere?
- Can progress restore more than it consumes?
Understanding is only the beginning.
Protect Earth supports practical projects that protect our home planet. We Are From Earth builds understanding and care. Protect Earth turns that care into work on the ground.
- Understand
- Care
- Act
- Measure
- Share
This should belong to more than one person.
We are building a network of writers, photographers, scientists, conservationists, artists and curious humans around the planet.
One remarkable perspective on our planet, occasionally.
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