The species is reaching two escape velocities at once, in opposite directions, and cannot feel the contradiction

This week a single company crossed $2.8 trillion in valuation on the promise of leaving the planet, while the planet itself crossed deeper into a heat overshoot it cannot leave. We cannot contain this in a reading. We can only name it: the same civilisation, in the same days, is pouring its surplus into the dream of departure and discovering that the home it would depart is becoming endangered keystone by keystone. The rocket and the penguin are funded by the same economy. *The honest relations ...