The multitude is the third finger of planetarity. The planet is many worlds, each species with its own Umwelt and its own senses, and honouring that means extending justice beyond the human.
How the word moved
I picked the word in October 2025 over "multispecies" because it also covers the many senses through which the planet gets sensed.
In my words
"The worlds of other species differ from ours qualitatively as well as quantitatively. They are the multitude."
from Bhumics: Planetarity as Philosophical Engineering (PAPE), Part 1, 23 Oct 2025
Related
- Inherited from Jakob von Uexkull - Umwelt is his word, and I took it.
- Related Five Fingers of Planetarity - it's the third finger.
- Related Multispecies Justice - justice for the multitude.
- Related Planetary Alterity - alien umwelts are the multitude taken off-planet.