JOURNEY TO EARTHLAND

First, essence of this Planetary Phase of Civilization (our term for the the essay clarifies the meaning of the historic juncture, introducing emerging era) is the deepening interdependence binding humanity the idea of “Earthland” to characterize the nascent supranational and Earth into a single community of fate. [...] Which Earthland? The long prelude Out of the cosmos The main focus of this essay is on the meaning of the present and anatomy of the future, not the past. [...] Modernity undercut the authority The twentieth century opened with a surge of international trade, of received wisdom and the stasis of traditionalism, and put the pedal foreshadowing the mighty globalization at its close, but such trade to the floor in the race to a world system. [...] The rich were getting richer and proliferating in industrialism flared in the political and countercultural upsurges of expanding pockets of wealth in the Global South; the wiring of the the 1960s. [...] arced out from the local to the global: from air and water pollution The quickening pace of change binds the future more tightly to the to the destabilization of the ecosphere.