DEFINING ‘EARTH’

I relish thoughts from the Resurgence team and have been a subscriber in the past many times. I wanted to point something out to you. This ‘thing’ has been gnawing at me for a few decades, and I’ve brought it up with a lot of writers and other activists. It’s the language around how we refer to our planet.

I’ve done a little research, too. It turns out that the International Space Agency agrees that the name of the planet of which we are all a part is ‘Earth’. That is, no ‘the’ and capital ‘E’. Just like our names of the other planets. I have also done research to show ...

 

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