Earthling

: Before one is a citizen of a nation or a member of a profession, one is an earthling.

: When considering the future, such as potential contact with alien life, being an "earthling" provides a moral framework for deciding how to weigh the needs of our own planet's inhabitants against those of other worlds. Earthling

: The term helps collapse artificial divisions—nationalism, race, and creed—into a single "global subjectivity". : Before one is a citizen of a