March 13 - Knave of Pentacles

The Knave of Pentacles -- Technogaianism. A banner reads belief in the power of technology to restore Earth's environment. A sun is surrounded by stars and the words closed biosphere experiments on Earth and other planets. Beams from the sun reach through a void filled with stars to a sun with an all seeing eye. The second sun's rays touch two spheres: terraforming other planets and the gaia hypothesis, planet earth as a homeostatic organism, formulated by James Lovelock, a NASA scientist, in the 1960s

Potential, practicality, and opportunities in material concerns.

And these are kind of the big questions, right? Is there a way to make technology that isn't actively depleting resources and the biosphere-- a way that could even work with nature, supporting and restoring its processes? It feels so far from what we have now, but every new thing had to start somewhere.

Similar to interplanetary exploration, biodomes and terraforming have also kind of gotten a bad rep for, well, the people who would choose to continue burning up Earth's atmosphere for a slim chance of living on Mars.

Similarly I kind of cringe at the idea that Earth's environment needs us to save or rebuild it. Honestly, I am so inspired by the nature I see, even when it's struggling or changing... the trees that get blown over in windstorms but start sprouting from the trunk or growing sideways... the lichens that thrive in any crevice, and that's just around me in the city. Life can exist in strange situations and crazy extremes... why work against that for a sterile vision of the future?