Geosocietal narratives address the ethical, legal, and societal implications of work in geosciences. For example, geoethics is a form of geosocietal narrative, which addresses the ethical problems of human engagement with places, natural resources, and the Earth system as a whole. This contribution to the broader discussion about such narratives focuses upon three key challenges. The first is the challenge of delivering something distinctive, and beyond existing and proximate discourses such as familiar forms of environmental ethics. One important aspect of trying to move beyond the existing discourses involves valuing Earth as a planet. A familiar idea within activism, but an idea which has proven difficult to articulate because of our tendency to focus upon places where humans are rather than the planet as a whole. This tendency is understood by appeal to the concept of “ground bias.” The second challenge is one of doing justice to the familiar phenomenology of human valuing. Whatever our best or most familiar ethical theories tell us, our concern reaches beyond the biological alone. This can lead us to shore up these ethical theories by justifying various sorts of geo-protection in terms which come adrift from our actual (and broader) motivations. The third challenge involves recognizing and responding to the pressures toward animistic sensibilities (evidenced by talk about the personhood of rivers, mountains, and parks). Sensibilities which are driven not just by legal convenience or by transitory political trends, but by various technologies of the Anthropocene.