 For at least the last 50 years, positive politics has been unfavorably viewed as reactionary and totalitarian. And it is true that, in many respects, Comte was resolutely anti-modern but, especially in his later writings, he also held ideas which are in keeping with contemporary concerns. For instance, he had an acute feeling for the way humanity is dependent on astronomical conditions: assume small changes in the elliptical orbit of Earth, in the inclination of Ecliptic, and life, at least life as we know it, would have been impossible. Humanity, the proper study of sociology, is closely connected to the Earth, the human planet, ‘with its gaseous and liquid envelopes’ (Comte 1851 [1875], 429). In spite of the Copernican revolution, Earth remains for each of us the firm, unshakable ground upon which everything stands. See for instance what Comte says about fatherland and the way ‘the Tent, the Car or the Ship are to the nomad family a sort of moveable Country, connecting the Family or the Horde with its material basis, as with us the [Roma] in his van’ (1851, v. 2 285, E. 2 237). Politics is grounded in geopolitics, where geo  retains its etymological meaning, Gaia, and where Earth is understood as a planet in the solar system.