Welcome to Earthly Fortunes!
Helen here! I worked in agriculture, engineering, and geography — so I write about fortunes that come from the Earth:
🗺️Geography: physical and human geography; the lands we live on, and how they shape our lives.
🔥Energy: the indispensable driving force of everything, natural and human-made alike — but so rarely talked about!
🚀Industrial society: it is the world that God never made, but the world we build and live in.
🌑The Unseen: the things we take for granted, the things that are out of mainstream spotlights.
What’s happening now: a series on the Unseen impact of AI
New story every Friday. Your inbox will ring with delight 🔔
Join me on the journey
From Eden to Vegas.
From jellyfish to our laptops in the depth of time.
From my medieval farming life, to a fisherman’s life in the desert…
There is a lot to see and discover! It’s part Discovery — but for questions that we should have asked but haven't yet about where we were, are, and will be at; and part National Geographic — but seen through different lenses.
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