From Willem Windig, Rochester, New York, US
Reading the book review of Out of This World and Into the Next, I saw the term “terraform”. The general story behind its use is: “We aren’t able to keep Earth’s climate under control, so we go to another planet, where we first need to get the climate under control through terraforming.” Considering the experiences with making far-away places suit our modest needs, as in colonial times, “terrarizing” seems a more appropriate word. The practitioners of this noble art would be called terrarists(17 May, p 26).
