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For the first time in Earth's background, our world is experiencing a confluence of quickly accelerating changes prompted by one varieties: humans. Weather change is only the most noticeable of the alterations we've made - until this point, inadvertently - to the earth. And our current behavior threatens not only our very own future but that of many other animals. By assessing Earth's story to prospects of other planets, astrobiologist David Grinspoon shows just what a weird and novel development it is good for a varieties to evolve to develop machines, and finally, global societies with world-shaping affect. Without reducing the problems of another century, Grinspoon shows that our present moment is not only one of peril, but also great probable, especially when viewed from a 10,000-year point of view. Our varieties has surmounted the risk of extinction before, thanks to our innate ingenuity and capacity to adapt, and there's every reason to trust we can do it again. Our problem now could be to awaken to our role as a make of planetary change, and also to grow into this. We should become graceful planetary engineers, mindful shapers of our environment and caretakers of Earth's biosphere. This is a point of view that begs us to ask not simply what future do we want to avoid, but what do we seek to build? The type of world do we want? Are humans the most detrimental thing or the best thing to ever happen to our world? Today we stand at a pivotal juncture, and the response will be based upon the options we make.
