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Becoming Earth by Ferris Jabr review – our planet: a living, breathing, mutating miracle

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Summary
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75% Informative

Ferris Jabr takes James Lovelock’s Gaia hypothesis, which proposed a reframing of Earth as a living being.

Becoming Earth ’ is an exploration of how life has transformed the planet, a meditation on what it means to say that Earth itself is alive, and a celebration of the wondrous ecology that sustains our world.

The US emits one-quarter of the excess CO2 in our skies, while China emits just an eighth of it.

The 19th-century technology of burning fossil fuels still generates 80% of the energy humanity uses.

Even just to reform our stewardship of the soil could return CO2 to preindustrial levels by 2100 .

VR Score

72

Informative language

66

Neutral language

67

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

51

Offensive language

not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

long-living

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