Planetarity
Life, the Planet and Everything Else
Planetarity
The most immediate implication is that our ideas cannot rely on the power of chance at all. There have been a great many hypotheses about the origins of life that relied on a coincidence: say, a one-in-a-billion collision between two biological molecules in the primordial soup. But if life really formed within 0.1 billion years of the planet’s birt... See more
Life on Earth emerged fast. Far quicker than we thought | Aeon Essays
Life on Earth emerged fast. Far quicker than we thought | Aeon Essays
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The Daily Planet #1
Over the last year or so, I have slowly but firmly shifted from being climate-first to being planet-first. What does that mean, and why? There are many reasons, but let me count three.
1. Climate Change is only one of the many ways in which humans are inserting themselves into the biogeochemical processes of the Earth.
2. There are
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