I'm a PhD scientist, environmentalist, and writer trying to help reconfigure our relationship to Earth and each other. I find it nothing short of a miracle we find ourselves conscious in this astonishing universe. I spend my days wondering what our society would look like if we acknowledged how precarious and precious our existence is. The values of modern society have left much to be wanted in the way of meaning and purpose. I try to interrogate what is missing, and imagine what might we create to fill those gaps. Through a great stroke of irony, climate change, the force that threatens to undo us, may provide the necessary wake-up call to give our striving purpose and help us find value in all that surrounds us.