Guilherme Fagundes shares behind-the-scenes details of his participation in the "Sanctuary on the Moon" project

"While we race to try and avert the next climate crisis, we are beginning to bury, on the Moon, a kind of memory capsule of Earth.

I don't know if this is comforting or disturbing. Perhaps both.

What interests me, as an anthropologist, is that this archive doesn't speak on behalf of an abstract humanity. It shows, albeit incompletely, that Earth has never been a single entity. It is made up of many forms of life and many ways of living, many ways of knowing, many conflicts and alliances between humans and non-humans, between forests and cities, between bacteria and satellites."

Guilherme Fagundes, professor in the Department of Anthropology at USP and vice-coordinator of LISA-USP, writes on the Piauí website about his participation in "Sanctuary on the Moon," a project that will preserve Earth's memories on the Moon. Access the full article at the link: https://piaui.folha.uol.com.br/arquivar-a-vida-na-era-do-colapso/

Photo: Vicente Thomas/ Sanctuary Moon