Earth in human hands: shaping our planet's future

✍ Scribed by Grinspoon, David Harry

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Edition: First edition
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

"A NASA astrobiologist outlines optimistic messages about humanity's future in the face of climate change, explaining how the human role in managing the planet's evolution is determining the course of life, "--NoveList.;Listening to the planets -- Can a planet be alive? -- Monkey with the world -- Planetary changes of the fourth kind -- Terra sapiens -- Intelligent worlds in the universe -- Finding our voice -- Embracing the human planet.

✦ Table of Contents

Listening to the planets --
Can a planet be alive? --
Monkey with the world --
Planetary changes of the fourth kind --
Terra sapiens --
Intelligent worlds in the universe --
Finding our voice --
Embracing the human planet.

✦ Subjects

Environmental protection;Global environmental change;Human beings;Human beings--History;Human ecology;Nature--Effect of human beings on;SCIENCE--Environmental Science (see also Chemistry;SCIENCE--Global Warming & Climate Change;SCIENCE--Philosophy & Social Aspects;SCIENCE--Space Science;History;;Human beings -- History;Nature -- Effect of human beings on;Earth (Planet);SCIENCE -- Environmental Science (see also Chemistry;SCIENCE -- Global Warming & Climate Change;SCIENCE -- Philosophy & Social A

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