Longtermism: The future is vast – what does this mean for our own life? - Our World in Data
https://ourworldindata.org/longtermism

If we keep each other safe – and protect ourselves from the risks that nature and we ourselves pose – we are only at the beginning of human history.

Exclusive: More UFO Hearings Are Coming As Whistleblowers Are Called Forward And Legacy Programs Are Verified By Congress — Liberation Times | Reimagining Old News
https://www.liberationtimes.com/home/exclusive-more-ufo-hearings-are-coming-as-whistleblowers-are-called-forward-and-legacy-programs-are-verified-by-congress

“This new legislation to provide amnesty and immunity for those involved in these programs to come forward is a potential game changer. I have personally spoken with numerous individuals who have had roles in these legacy UFO exploitation programs.

Globe-World-Planet
https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/globe-world-planet

Just as valuable work has been done, some in the wake of Lefebvre, distinguishing between the overlapping yet non-congruent senses of ‘city’, ‘urban’ and ‘urbanisation’, so too should we seek to some clarification between ‘world’, ‘globe’ and ‘planet’.

State, Space, World — University of Minnesota Press
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/state-space-world

start with Lefebvre not Spivak: where proletarian struggles to produce and appropriate social space assume a planetary dimension (as possible catastrophe but also as a new horizon of political possibility)

mineral sovereignty

2018 On mineral sovereignty: towards a political theory of geological power
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325607784_On_mineral_sovereignty_towards_a_political_theory_of_geological_power_-_Energy_Research_Social_Science

The Anthropocene thesis invokes the ‘enormous geological power’ of industrialism: driven by
hydrocarbon combustion, manifest in planetary heating. Yet political theory has proceeded as if the
organisation of geological power were incidental to history. Geological agency, we submit, is
precisely what mining industries are organised to achieve, materially and politically.

We propose mineral sovereignty as a term of method to analyse ‘geological power’ in its legible, institutional and
intentional forms. We deploy it to excavate an entwined genealogy of state and corporation: one
evident in the constitutional (or extra-parliamentary) technologies of sovereignty and property that
order the appropriation and distribution of mineral wealth. Through three provocations, we ‘stratify’
the concept of sovereignty: in the ‘royal metals’ of early modern states; in the rise of neoliberalism as
a re-privatisation of mineral-energy infrastructures against the claims of social democracy; and in
anticipatory extensions of mineral sovereignty to outer space. Mineral sovereignty discloses
methodological problems for energy and climate policy. Pre-analytical distinctions between public
law and the private power of fossil capital imply a hierarchy and separation that cannot be presumed,
but must be achieved. We must ‘leave it in the ground’: this requires the re-assertion of democratic
control over the mineral estate.

dl: https://cssn.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/WalkerJohnsonOnMineralSovereigntyPreprintDraft.pdf

2021 Neopanspermia–Evidence That Life Continuously Arrives at the Earth from Space
http://www.isaacpub.org/images/PaperPDF/AdAp_100157_2021022423281867117.pdf

We discuss the development of the theory of panspermia and show how, over the past decade, we have used balloon-borne samplers (lofted to heights approaching 30km) to isolate unusual Biological Entities (BEs) which, we maintain, are continuously arriving at the Earth from space. These BEs are carbon-based, show bilateral symmetry, contain DNA and are in the range 10-40 micrometres in dimension. Their sizes are an order of magnitude higher than particles (including bacteria and viruses) of terrestrial origin that are normally recovered in the stratosphere. The fact that Earth-organisms (e.g. pollen grains, grass-shards and fungal spores) have not been found in our samples provides additional evidence that the isolated BEs originate from space and are of extraterrestrial provenance. We propose that such incoming microorganisms led to the emergence of life on the primitive Earth between 3.83 and 4 billion years ago and thereafter have continuously contributed to its evolution.

We Have Even More Evidence Life's Building Blocks Came to Earth From Space : ScienceAlert
https://www.sciencealert.com/we-have-even-more-evidence-life-s-building-blocks-arrived-on-earth-from-space

Identifying the wide diversity of extraterrestrial purine and pyrimidine nucleobases in carbonaceous meteorites | Nature Communications
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-29612-x

Here we report the detection of nucleobases in three carbonaceous meteorites using state-of-the-art analytical techniques optimized for small-scale quantification of nucleobases down to the range of parts per trillion (ppt). In addition to previously detected purine nucleobases in meteorites such as guanine and adenine, we identify various pyrimidine nucleobases such as cytosine, uracil, and thymine, and their structural isomers such as isocytosine, imidazole-4-carboxylic acid, and 6-methyluracil, respectively. Given the similarity in the molecular distribution of pyrimidines in meteorites and those in photon-processed interstellar ice analogues, some of these derivatives could have been generated by photochemical reactions prevailing in the interstellar medium and later incorporated into asteroids during solar system formation. This study demonstrates that a diversity of meteoritic nucleobases could serve as building blocks of DNA and RNA on the early Earth.

Chandra Wickramasinghe - Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandra_Wickramasinghe

The Hoyle–Wickramasinghe model of panspermia include the assumptions that dormant viruses and desiccated DNA and RNA can survive unprotected in space;[32] that small bodies such as asteroids and comets can protect the "seeds of life", including DNA and RNA,[33][34][35] living, fossilized, or dormant life, cellular[36][37] or non-cellular;[33][34][35][36][38][39][40][41] and that the collisions of asteroids, comets, and moons have the potential to spread these "seeds of life" throughout an individual star system and then onward to others.[38][41] The most contentious issue around the Hoyle–Wickramasinghe model of the panspermia hypothesis is the corollary of their first two propositions that viruses and bacteria continue to enter the Earth's atmosphere from space, and are hence responsible for many major epidemics throughout history.[42][43][44]

Towards the end of their collaboration, Wickramasinghe and Hoyle hypothesised that abiogenesis occurred close to the Galactic Center before panspermia carried life throughout the Milky Way,[45] and stated a belief that such a process could occur in many galaxies throughout the Universe.[46][47]

Library Genesis: Jeremy Walker - More Heat than Life: The Tangled Roots of Ecology, Energy, and Economics
http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=937725BFE61E42944D10504D6015ADE1

This book traces the interacting histories of the disciplines of ecology and economics, from their common origin in the ancient Greek concept of oikonomia, through their distinct encounters with energy physics, to the current obstruction of neoliberal economics to responses to the ecological and climate crisis of the so-called Anthropocene. Reconstructing their constitution as separate sciences in the era of fossil-fuelled industrial capitalism, the book offers an explanation of how the ecological sciences have moved from a position of critical collision with mainstream economics in the 1970s, to one of collusion with the project of permanent growth, in and through the thermal crisis of the biosphere.

‘It felt like a funeral’: William Shatner reflects on voyage to space | William Shatner | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/oct/11/it-felt-like-a-funeral-william-shatner-reflects-on-voyage-to-space

“Everything I had thought was wrong. Everything I had expected to see was wrong,” he wrote. “I had thought that going into space would be the ultimate catharsis of that connection I had been looking for between all living things – that being up there would be the next beautiful step to understanding the harmony of the universe.”

The Canadian, who captivated the world in his role as Captain James Kirk of Star Trek’s USS Enterprise, broke down in tears upon landing, describing having had “the most profound experience I can imagine”. “I hope I never recover from this,” he said at the time. “I’m so filled with emotion about what just happened. It’s extraordinary, extraordinary

But a year after touching down back to Earth, Shatner wrote in the excerpt: “I discovered that the beauty isn’t out there, it’s down here, with all of us. Leaving that behind made my connection to our tiny planet even more profound.”

“It was among the strongest feelings of grief I have ever encountered. The contrast between the vicious coldness of space and the warm nurturing of Earth below filled me with overwhelming sadness.

“Every day, we are confronted with the knowledge of further destruction of Earth at our hands: the extinction of animal species, of flora and fauna … things that took 5bn years to evolve, and suddenly we will never see them again because of the interference of mankind. It filled me with dread.

“My trip to space was supposed to be a celebration; instead, it felt like a funeral.”