Life found on Mars

By Tom Murphy, Do the Math

No, life has not yet been found on Mars, but imagine waking up to that headline. How would you react? What would this stir for you?

The Edges of the Earth

By Dawid Juraszek, Dark Mountain Project

If human ingenuity were a story, one of its main motifs would be transportation. Creatures of land by birth, we have transcended our limitations, reaching across air and water, beyond our own biosphere.

I Only Have One Prediction for You

By Dougald Hine, Bella Caledonia

Western environmentalism is surely haunted by the same ghosts as the death-phobic culture out of which it came. When we look at that famous image of the Earth from space, I can’t help thinking that our sense of its fragility is overlaid with projections of an unreconciled fear of our own deaths.

The Next Ten Billion Years

By John Michael Greer, The Archdruid Report

Earlier this week, I was trying to think of ways to talk about the gap between notions about the future we’ve all absorbed from the last three hundred years of fossil-fueled progress, on the one hand, and the ways of thinking about what’s ahead that might actually help us make sense of our predicament and the postpetroleum, post-progress world ahead, on the other.