Name: Earth in Human Hands: Shaping our Planet's Future (en Inglés)
Price: 27190.00 CLP
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Author: Grinspoon, David
ISBN: 9781455589128

portada Earth in Human Hands: Shaping our Planet's Future (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

David Grinspoon

Editorial

Grand Central Publishing

Año

2016

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

544

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

23.4 x 16.3 x 4.1 cm

Peso

0.77 kg.

ISBN13

9781455589128

N° edición

Categorías

Química medioambiental
Cambio climático
Ciencia, ingeniería y tecnología medioambientales

Earth in Human Hands: Shaping our Planet's Future (en Inglés)

David Grinspoon (Autor) · Grand Central Publishing · Tapa Dura

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Reseña del libro "Earth in Human Hands: Shaping our Planet's Future (en Inglés)"

NASA Astrobiologist and renowned scientist Dr. David Grinspoon brings readers an optimistic message about humanity's future in the face of climate change. For the first time in Earth's history, our planet is experiencing a confluence of rapidly accelerating changes prompted by one species: humans. Climate change is only the most visible of the modifications we've made--up until this point, inadvertently--to the planet. And our current behavior threatens not only our own future but that of countless other creatures. By comparing Earth's story to those of other planets, astrobiologist David Grinspoon shows what a strange and novel development it is for a species to evolve to build machines, and ultimately, global societies with world-shaping influence. Without minimizing the challenges of the next century, Grinspoon suggests that our present moment is not only one of peril, but also great potential, especially when viewed from a 10,000-year perspective. Our species has surmounted the threat of extinction before, thanks to our innate ingenuity and ability to adapt, and there's every reason to believe we can do so again. Our challenge now is to awaken to our role as a force of planetary change, and to grow into this task. We must become graceful planetary engineers, conscious shapers of our environment and caretakers of Earth's biosphere. This is a perspective that begs us to ask not just what future do we want to avoid, but what do we seek to build? What kind of world do we want? Are humans the worst thing or the best thing to ever happen to our planet? Today we stand at a pivotal juncture, and the answer will depend on the choices we make.