Sublime

The idea dated back to the Roman Empire. According to a mandate adopted by Justinian, who governed from A.D. 527 to 565, the sea, shoreline, air, and rivers belonged to everyone as part of the commons: Salus populi suprema lex esto. The welfare of the people is the supreme law.

The worst of it was on the other side of the globe, on the tiny Caribbean island of Navassa, near Haiti. Rather ominously, it was called Devil’s Island. Although Navassa didn’t have much actual guano, its coral reef was packed with deposits of tricalcium phosphate, the fossilized legacy of centuries’ worth of marine life—also a rich nutrient for ex

Pour l’historien Christophe Bonneuil, nous vivons donc une « radicalisation d’une guerre des mondes » entre Modernes et Terrestres, entre ceux qui pensent que la terre est leur propriété à moderniser et ceux qui savent appartenir à la Terre et composent de nouveaux liens entre humains et avec les autres qu’humains sur les territoires en lutte275