“Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime” – Martin Luther.

Dear Climate Healers,

Lazarus Rising from the Dead

In March 2026, scientists announced a discovery that seemed almost miraculous. The pygmy long-fingered possum and the ring-tailed glider, two marsupial species previously known only from fossils and believed extinct for over 6,000 years, were found alive in the remote rainforests of Indonesia’s Vogelkop Peninsula.

Such species that vanish from the fossil record for millennia only to reappear among the living, are known as the Lazarus taxa. Professor Tim Flannery, conservationist and notable author of the 2006 book on climate science, The Weather Makers, said:

“The discovery of two species, thought to have been extinct for thousands of years, is remarkable.”

Both species survived in isolation, hidden in fragments of ancient rainforest, protected partly by terrain and partly by Indigenous communities who consider these animals sacred. They are living ghosts from an ecosystem that was nearly destroyed.

Their rediscovery offers more than scientific wonder. It provides a powerful template for what Planet B makes possible: the resurrection of Life on Earth.

The Lazarus marsupials survived because habitat remained, connectivity existed, human pressure was limited, and ecological relationships continued. These are precisely the conditions created at planetary scale through the conscious adoption of Planet B as the new Operating System (OS) for human civilization.

Planet A: The Sixth Great Mass Extinction

Using Planet A, the OS that we inherited from our ancestors, we are currently causing Earth’s Sixth Great Mass Extinction event. Species are disappearing at 1,000-10,000 times the natural background rate. The Living Planet Index shows 73% average decline in monitored vertebrate populations since 1970 until 2020, compounded on top of an estimated 60% reduction from 10,000 years ago to 1970, bringing the grand total up to a nearly 90% reduction from pristine levels.

The primary driver of this catastrophic loss of wildlife is land use for animal agriculture. Animal agriculture uses 80% of agricultural land to produce only 12% of the food for human consumption by dry weight, because we’re feeding crops to farmed animals instead of eating plant foods directly. This grotesque inefficiency, facilitated by widespread nutritional miseducation on Planet A, requires clearing forests, draining wetlands, plowing prairies, eliminating habitat for countless species, and converting complex ecosystems into monocultures using fertilizers that are fast disappearing from our industrial stockpile as a result of the ongoing military disaster in the Middle East.

The only sensible way out of this looming global catastrophe is the conscious adoption of Planet B as the new OS for humanity.

Planet B: Creating Continental-Scale Wildlife Sanctuaries

Planet B operates on fundamentally different principles than Planet A. Whole-foods, plant-based Vegan food systems reduce agricultural land use by over 80%, from 6 billion hectares to 1 billion hectares. This frees approximately 5 billion hectares, 40% of ice-free land, an area nearly equal to North and South America combined, for ecosystem restoration, rewilding and building food system resilience through agro-forestry.

This isn’t marginal habitat improvement. This is returning continental-scale land areas to wild ecosystems where Life can regenerate.

Imagine the Sumatran orangutan recolonizing vast restored Indonesian rainforest. Imagine grassland birds returning as 2 billion hectares of grazing land rewild to native prairie. Imagine the Amazon jaguar roaming through reconnected rainforest as cattle ranching ends. Imagine African elephants migrating across restored savannas.

This is resurrection at scale, not individual species saved through heroic efforts, but wholesale ecosystem regeneration creating conditions where millions of species can expand and thrive.

How Planet B Enables Resurrection

Habitat Restoration: When 5 billion hectares transition from animal agriculture to rewilding (and food forests), natural succession begins. Remove farmed animals, and within years pioneer plants establish. Within decades, forests return. Within a century, robust ecosystems develop. Wild plants, then insects, then birds, then mammals, and then predators return in succession
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Connectivity Corridors: When 5 billion hectares rewild, habitat doesn’t just increase, but it also connects. Isolated protected areas become nodes in vast wilderness networks. Species can migrate, populations can intermix, and genetic diversity can increase. Wildlife corridors enable climate adaptation as species shift ranges in response to changing temperatures.

Trophic Rewilding: Ecosystems need complete food webs. Planet B restores trophic complexity as predators return to rewilded landscapes, herbivore populations balance naturally, and ecological relationships re-emerge. When wolves return to restored prairie, bison herds expand, and grassland ecosystems regenerate.

Time and Patience: The Lazarus marsupials survived more than 6,000 years in isolation, waiting. Planet B gives ecosystems the time they need. By halting ongoing destruction and freeing 5 billion hectares for regeneration, we create conditions where time works for restoration.

The Amazon: Resurrection in Action

Nowhere is Planet B‘s potential clearer than in the Amazon. Currently being destroyed primarily for cattle ranching to feed nutritionally miseducated and systematically sickened denizens of the global North, the forest is now approaching an irreversible tipping point.

Under Planet B, Brazil and neighboring nations transition to whole-foods, plant-based Vegan food systems. Cattle ranching ends. Deforestation halts. Indigenous communities lead restoration of 500,000+ square kilometers of degraded pasture. As the forest regenerates, jaguars will expand territories, harpy eagles will nest in emerging canopy, and the Web of Life will rebuild.

Within decades, significant recovery is possible. Within a century, robust secondary forest can regenerate. Within millennia, old-growth complexity approaching pre-human conditions will emerge. This is resurrection, enabling Life to return and flourish on Earth.

The Lazarus marsupials remind us that Life is patient. Six thousand years of survival in fragments demonstrates that if we create conditions for persistence, species will seize the opportunity to expand.

From Fragmentation to Connection

The most profound aspect of Planet B resurrection is scale. Currently, biodiversity persists in fragments as isolated islands of Life in a sea of human domination and destruction. Planet B reverses this. Protected areas become nodes in vast wilderness networks. Yellowstone connects to Glacier connects to the Yukon. Serengeti connects to Okavango connects to Kruger. Amazon fragments reconnect into continuous rainforest once again.

This planetary network, built on 5 billion rewilded hectares, allows not just persistence but flourishing. Species won’t just survive, but they will thrive, expand, evolve, and radiate into recovering ecosystems.

The Choice: Extinction or Resurrection

Today’s endangered species face a choice.

Under Planet A, most Life will go extinct on Earth, even as we spend billions dispatching astronauts on expensive spaceship missions to kick start Life on Mars. Under Planet A, habitat continues fragmenting, the climate continues destabilizing, as trillions of dollars are spent on endless wars leading to planetary destruction as collateral damage.

Under Planet B, most Life can recover right here on Earth. With 5 billion hectares freed for rewilding, habitat will expand dramatically, climate will likely stabilize, and human pressure will drop dramatically as food systems transform. The trajectory will reverse.

Every endangered species is asking this question: Collapse or Resurrect? Every ecosystem under pressure faces this binary choice.

The Great Resurrection

The Lazarus marsupials, hiding in their rainforest fragment for more than 6,000 years, demonstrate what’s possible when habitat persists. Every species currently endangered could be a Lazarus species, presumed lost, then rediscovered in regenerating habitat. Every ecosystem currently degraded could resurrect.

Life wants to live. Given space and time, Life can return, expand, and flourish far more reliably on Earth over the coming decades than Artemis II and its astronaut crew can accomplish on Mars, if at all.

Planet B gives Life 5 billion hectares of space, centuries of time, and billions of trained human Vitally Engaged Guardians of Animals and Nature (VEGANs) to facilitate its resurrection. We don’t have to wait 6,000 years. We can accomplish this within decades.

This is the resurrection of Life on Earth. The Lazarus species prove it is possible. All that remains is our commitment to make it happen, starting now.

Happy Easter, one and all!

With much love,