Earthling -
: Adopting an earthling identity helps individuals feel they belong to a larger whole, shifting focus from narrow professional or personal goals toward serving the "wholeness" of our global home. Global and Ethical Implications
: This identity suggests a reciprocal relationship with the wind, the fruit we eat, and the soil beneath us. Earthling
David Miller, Justice for earthlings: essays in political philosophy : Adopting an earthling identity helps individuals feel
: As earthlings, we face collective challenges like climate change and resource management that require global cooperation. the fruit we eat
: Before one is a citizen of a nation or a member of a profession, one is an earthling.
: The term helps collapse artificial divisions—nationalism, race, and creed—into a single "global subjectivity".