Tagged: planetary-awareness
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The Cattle of the Sun
Christopher Nolan's Odyssey, the Sea Peoples, and a herd of stored sunlight that neither breeds nor dies. Homer wrote down what that costs, and it is not the voyage.
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.