Vegan Earth

Worshiping the mightiness of chloroplasts

Orbiting astronauts have described Earth as a “Blue Marble” but the true essence of our middle-aged planet is “green.” Satellite images become transfixed on the expanse of azure oceans and they fail to reveal the living masses of algae, plankton and seaweeds teeming just below the water’s surface. From such a distance the planet’s terrestrial grasses, p…