
Xavier Le Pichon — The Fragility at the Heart of Humanity
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Fragility of the Earth
Zavier le pichon was inspired by the fragility that marks human life at its beginning, its end and in between. He drew analogies between how a whole community works - incorporating fagility as part of its living being - and what you know about the earth. Man community have been built around two kinds of i call them poles, you know, centres. They have reorganized themselves round the small one the babies, because otherwise there is no no life possible.
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