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An Earthling With an Extraterrestrial Pen Pal Imagines a Cooler World

“The systems we’ve learned to depend on are harming us and our planet — but what an opportunity for great change this can be!”

Haruka Aoki is an artist, illustrator and author.

ImageHandwritten text sits below red, white and blue airmail stripes. A postmark stamp reads: “Planet Earth. Aug. 18, 2024.”  Below that is a letter with the heading: “Letter No. 2. Letters From Earthling.” The letter reads: “Dear Friend, Every year it gets hotter and hotter on our planet, and we, including our nonhuman comrades, are having to quickly learn how to adapt to this head. Id’ like to imagine that in a future not so far away, our lives will look quite different from today.”
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A version of this article appears in print on   , Section AR, Page 2 of the New York edition. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe

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