I must say it’s pretty darn difficult to erase the use of labels when I use labels as a means of label-erasing.

For instance, the press reports that the “Chinese” are launching a probe to the Moon by the end of the year.

Who is this person (or who are these persons) called the “Chinese”?

Is it people labeled because of their genetic likeness?

Their geographical space?

Their registered identity with a government?

Wouldn’t it be better to say that our species is launching another probe to the Moon?

Only by removing labels associated with local conditions on Earth can we as representatives of the planet say we are going to move life back out into the solar system and beyond.

There’s always a small chance that a stray bacterium will survive a trip to another celestial body and be the first Earth-based living thing to establish a colony, using us as its transport medium.