Reader Planetary / Ecological

Being-on-a-Planet

The stance of planetary self-awareness that embraces differentiation rather than unity — reckoning with Earth as overlapping spheres (lithosphere, biosphere, technosphere, noosphere) rather than a single Whole Earth image.

Appears in 4 texts

2026-01-24 No Future 2026 "The sun keeps flaring at Earth. North America is freezing over. Bombers are circling Iran like carrion. Greenland is quivering."2025-01-22 A Personal Reflection: California Dreamin' "I see a beautiful future ahead where mutual aid systems allow for the kind of coordinated restoration that Half-Earth calls for."2025-01-21 A Personal Reflection: On Mutual Aid "The emotional weight of my comrades who are on the front lines of this disaster is to bear witness to as profound a human grief as any."2024-10-30 Planetary Realism "Being-on-a-Planet is far from obvious. It asks of you not to look at the planet from above, as a unity, but to lower the cameras down from up high, down, down into the critical zone."