“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated” – Confucius.

Dear Climate Healers Family,

The planet that looked like a pale blue dot suspended on a beam of light had almost reached the limits of its habitability.

The diameter of the planet was roughly 108 times smaller than the diameter of the star and the mean orbital distance of the planet was roughly 108 times larger than the diameter of the star. There was something magical about the number 108 for that little planet.

Life had persisted on the planet for well over 4 billion years. All those years ago, the planet was in the middle of the habitable zone around the star, a condition optimized for liquid water to persist on its surface.

But the star had become hotter and hotter over time, roughly 1% hotter every 100 million years or 40% hotter over 4 billion years. As the star got hotter, the habitable zone around the star got pushed out, while the planet’s orbit around the star remained the same.

With the increased luminosity of the star, the habitable zone is now calculated to be between 0.99 and 1.72 times the orbital distance of the planet from the star. The planet is now precariously perched at the inner edge of the habitable zone around the star.

Will life persist on this planet in these precarious conditions or will it die out? The fate of a planet once it crossed the inner edge of the habitable zone around a star would be truly hellish.

Surface temperatures would rise to Venus-like levels (460ºC) as life dies out. Oceans would boil away leaving a dry, barren landscape. The stratosphere would become saturated with water vapor, which would then photo dissociate in the presence of ultra violet rays from the star into hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen would escape into space leaving a completely dehydrated and dead planet.

The pale blue dot would become a reddish brown dot, as rocks boil into magma and tectonic plates cease to move about.

But life on the planet had a short-term plan to thrive for another 100 million years or so. It spawned a species that resembled a puny, upright ape and endowed it with opposable thumbs and a prefrontal cortex. The ape learned how to start fires on demand and used this skill to amass the enormous power needed to stabilize the surface temperature of the planet.

In the process, it built sophisticated instruments to measure every aspect of the little planet’s life-support systems. It knew when these life-support systems would go awry and took steps to rein them in with active feedback.

With this species on the job, the pale blue dot could thrive alive, twinkling like a space ship, even at the inner edge of the habitable zone around the star. Life would be safe for at least another 100 million years now.

The little planet then began hatching a longer-term plan to gradually push its orbit outward as the star got hotter over time.

Please stay tuned.

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One small change. One powerful movement. One healing planet with all 7 planetary boundary transgressions mitigated. One pale blue dot resuscitated.

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With much love,