Ferris Jabr’s Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life is a book that encapsulates ideas I have been working through over the years, both here on Ekostories and in other creative endeavours. I found myself intrigued by one of its main ambitions: To reframe life as more verb and less noun, more fluid in form and less rigid in definition, as a self-organizing, system-regulating force that has become part and parcel of this planet; for without life, Earth would be no different than so many ...
