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Unless we plan to stay holed up underground for the duration of our stay on every new planet, we must find better ways of protecting ourselves without needing to resort to wearing a suit of armor that weighs something equal to your own body weight, or needing to hide behind a wall of lead.
See, for four billion years, what lived and died on this planet depended on two principles: on natural selection and random mutation.
But we should not run every evolutionary decision on this planet.
Think of the planet like a human body that we inhabit.
But every journey I take around the world, I see an even greater force sweeping the planet: connectivity.
They think cities are wrecking the planet.
To survive we have to reach beyond the home planet.
Two million years ago humans evolved in Africa and then slowly but surely spread out across the entire planet by reaching into the wilderness that was beyond their horizons.
And yes we should all be taking far better care of our own home planet.
Perhaps then we will look back at Earth and see that that is one people instead of many and perhaps then we will look back at Earth, as we struggle to survive on Mars, and realize how precious the home planet is.
Mars is not our sister planet.
And if you look at Mars, it looks really dry, it looks like the entire planet is a desert.
In fact, if only the water ice at the poles on Mars melted, most of the planet would be under 30 feet of water.
And that's terraforming the planet: making it more like Earth, reengineering an entire planet.
As the planet spins, it will heat up all that dry ice, sublime it, and it will go into the atmosphere.
We get more protection from radiation, more atmosphere makes us warmer, makes the planet warmer, so we get running water and that makes crops possible.
We were geologically illiterate, unaware of the antiquity of our own planet and ignorant of our connection to deep time.
But they excelled at covering ground, and in a remarkable diaspora surpassing even the dinosaurs' record of territorial conquest, they dispersed across the planet, ravishing every ecosystem they encountered, along the way, inventing culture and metalworking and painting and dance and music and science and rocket ships that would eventually take 12 particularly excellent apes to the surface of the Moon.
With seven billion peripatetic Homo sapiens on the planet, it was perhaps inevitable that one of them would eventually trod on the grave of the magnificent titan buried beneath the badlands of Southern Patagonia.
Thus, multitudinous creatures living and dying on an old planet leave behind immense numbers of fossils, each one a small miracle, but collectively, inevitable.
The tiniest perturbation of that asteroid far from Earth would have caused it to miss our planet by a wide margin.
And the nature of the fossil record tells us that our place on this planet is both precarious and potentially fleeting.
It has only been within my lifetime that asteroids have been considered a credible threat to our planet.
Just yesterday, I was reading about how you can take out a boat on Europa and sail from island to island all over the planet, and some of the islands have villages that you can stay and visit and sleep under the shadow of Jupiter.
The discovery of an alien monolith on planet RH-1729 has scientists across the world racing to unlock its mysteries.
Most recently, I visited the icy coast of Greenland and the low-lying islands of the Maldives, connecting two seemingly disparate but equally endangered parts of our planet.
EH: But here on this planet you have really mattered.
You can look at it from the perspective of our planet, and try to see how it might look without borders, if we just organized art and culture.
We see ourselves as a thinking, feeling and moral human race, but until we solve these problems for all of our members, we fail that standard, because every person on this planet matters.
She has achieved a modest prosperity that I believe is the human right of every hardworking person on the planet.
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