Tagged: planetary-awareness
5 thoughts
The Atasthalocene
Nine lines into the Odyssey, Homer names the cause of shipwreck: atasthalíai — reckless follies, committed after fair warning. As Nolan's film opens worldwide, a closer look at the word our epoch may deserve, and the exit it names.
Land Held in Trust
Aotearoa New Zealand set aside a third of itself as public conservation land. A 2026 bill would make most of it eligible for sale, exchange, or development — at the exact moment the science asks us to protect more, not less.
The Beam Goes Level
Comparison is the oldest instrument of thought — to weigh the unknown against a known measure. GLOBAÏA's Sfera gathers Earth's water, air, life, and human-made mass into spheres at true scale, and somewhere around 2020 the two pans — the born world and the made world — went level.
The Anthropocene Strait
Fourteen named rocks — Monomorphia, Pleonexia, Hyperbasis, and the others — that lie between us and a safe and just harbour. An allegorical wink at Homer, on the eve of Christopher Nolan's Odyssey.
One World or None
On two photographs of Earth taken half a century apart, and what they ask of us.