earth
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The world is colossal
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The world is still colossal, a gaping map of mystery our brains fill in with imagination. It’s delusional to think we know it. Thankfully, any time we traverse the planet we’re awakened by our own trained incapacity, an ignorance blind to nature’s surprises. The ever sprawling internet promises to teach us a few things, but…
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Setting sun
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Whether we establish a route or keep it open-ended, we can discover things along the way. Constraints produce their own magic. They make us innovate based on what we have to play with. But so too do indefinite destinations. Out of curiosity blooms everything. The more we know, the more we want to know We…
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Earth stripped of water
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Life as we know it can survive without sunlight and oxygen: witness the creatures that populate the sulfurous vicinity of submarine hydrothermal vents. Life as we know it cannot live without water, and where there is water, there is almost always life.“I discovered living creatures in rain, which had stood but a few days in…
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The Population Bomb
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In 1968, Doctor Paul Ehrlich warned the world of its excessive population with his book entitled The Population Bomb (Amazon). “The battle to feed all of humanity is over,” he wrote, “hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death.” His trip to an overcrowded Delhi in 1966 seemed to convince him that there…
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We shape Earth. It shapes us.
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We shape the Earth, and it shapes us. For all the pieces interact, transforming into a cohesive thought. The trees grow in cities, the oceans meet at the cape. All the pieces interact, enveloped by the space inside. The weather is fickle, cyclical, everything too much for a remix, itching for evolution. To get closer to the texture of…