Third in the run that started with Other Minds, and this one widens out from mind to the whole planet. His subject is action — how living things don’t just experience the world but reshape it, from bacteria oxygenating the atmosphere to beavers to termites to us. He’s a philosopher who dives, so the argument keeps surfacing in real encounters with animals. Then he turns to the hard part: If organisms have always remade the earth, what makes our version different, and what obligations follow. Careful, unhurried, and free of the usual doom cadence.
Living on Earth