Sublime

Plus largement, l’Anthropocène est le nom donné à cette nouvelle époque géologique qui caractérise notre présent4. Nous – les humains – sommes sortis de l’Holocène, une époque d’une remarquable stabilité climatique qui a duré environ 12 000 ans et qui a permis l’émergence de l’agriculture et des civilisations. Depuis quelques décennies, les humains

wired

if we recognize that life what we call life is a literal physical extension of Earth that Earth and living organisms form a single integrated evolving system and that that system is capable of self-regulation and astonishing resilience having endured for more than four billion years then we need to recognize Earth as the largest known living system

But a katabasis is never a wasted journey: it always offers a dose of the phenomenal. According to the news article that caught my eye, this one was no exception. The maps revealed that the Southern Indian Ocean seafloor was spectacularly, eerily beautiful. It was a symphony of extremes, a playlist of geology’s greatest hits. It was as if we had di

Of late, however, scientists have resurrected the name of an ancient goddess, Gaia, to express the idea of Earth as a living body on which we depend for life.

Humans Are Not from Earth by ecologist Ellis Silver.35 He picks up a few facts that should make anyone suspicious. Here are a few examples: