For all the damage they’ve inflicted on their one and only home, many human beings reflect on where they’ve gone wrong, and the major changes they’ll have to embrace in order to survive. Here are a few voices we’ve managed to capture.
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Human beings are coming up with all sorts of ingenious ways to walk gently on planet Earth.
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Judging from this latest voice transmission, it seems that human beings are poisoning themselves and their planet — transforming the very chemistry of their blue-green home.
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If there’s any hope for the human species, it draws sustenance from the collective wisdom of Planet Earth’s indigenous people — a highly diverse array of First Nations who’ve come to be dominated, over the course of hundreds of years, by alien forces of a more militarily and technologically powerful nature. But Earth’s native people draw on great inner strength. In their struggle, Earth’s future lies.
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Human beings discuss what Earth has in store for them … and the picture isn’t good …
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Human beings can’t decide how exactly their planet came to be. They have plenty of imaginative ideas.
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Astonishingly, the so-called ‘human’ species appropriates about twenty percent of its planet’s net productive capacity. If the voices in this captured transmission are to be believed, humanity’s insatiable consumptive thirst will have profound impact on the future development of life on Earth.
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Earth’s land surfaces are crisscrossed by mountains of great beauty — objects of wonderment and veneration for some, and greed for others.
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Human beings are deeply dependent on motorized machines to move themselves around. Trillions of these things now choke a vast and growing network of so-called “roads,” getting into deadly accidents and polluting the planet’s atmosphere.
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Human beings can’t decide whether to cherish trees or chop them down. This seems to be the take-away message in a tenth transmission we’ve just picked up from a far-off planet in crisis.
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Found in a time capsule … A Clayoquot Sound forest activist reflects on civil disobedience and the lesson she learned from a black bear, and sings a revised version of Danny Boy.
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One of Earth’s tens of millions of species has been mining colossal volumes of organic matter buried for ages — energy-rich liquids and gases that would have been buried for aeons still — and burning the stuff for fuel! Their garbage dumps have been seeping vast volumes of earth-warming methane. Bottom line: the creatures have managed to raise the surface temperature of their planet to a level higher than any time in the past hundred thousand years! Whether human beings can pull out of their nose dive is anyone’s guess.
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So-called “industrial economies” on Earth value money above all else, while squandering finite resources and poisoning their little blue-green planet.
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Earth is home to an astonishingly diverse array of creatures — as the voices in this captured transmission recount — but the planet appears to be in the midst of a huge crash.
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A former senior justice official of Earth’s most powerful nation vents his rage at the war machine his country has become.
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Human beings love money, as this fifth captured transmission testifies.
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Death and taxes are two things Earthlings say they can always count on. They face another cold truth – less predictable, but all-encompassing – each and every day, till they die … nothing ever stays the same; everything on their little planet is constantly changing.
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In this third captured transmission from a planet in crisis, voices describe how life evolved here.
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Earth is a dynamic planet — continually twisting and turning — as this fragmentary recording testifies.
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First in a series of fragmentary voice transmissions from a planet in crisis. Earthlings speak about the place they call home.
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An Interview with 1989 Right Livelihood Award winner Melaku Worede.
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