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.
Essays, field notes, photo stories, conversations and questions. Published when the work is ready rather than to a schedule.
Photo by NASA Earth Observatory
Why an obvious statement turns out to be the most useful thing we can say about ourselves, and why this project exists.
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.
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.
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.
One remarkable perspective on our planet, occasionally.
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