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And at that population level, our
planet
will be dealing with the limits of growth.
How many of you here could describe the sound of a single
planet
or star?
This is the
planet
Jupiter.
And that could be translated into "mey meen," which is the old Dravidian name for the
planet
Saturn.
It's a cupule that took 40 to 50,000 blows with a stone tool to create, and it's the first known expression of art on the
planet.
So watching all of this show from outer space, you think we get it, we understand that the most precious resource on the blue
planet
is our consciousness.
Because it's the first thing we draw; we surround ourselves with images of it; it's probably the most common image on the
planet.
And what I've learned since that event and during my recovery is that consciousness is under threat on this
planet
in ways it's never been under threat before.
And here are some of the other categories, if you look at the whole
planet.
And the tsunami of problems that we feel we're facing in terms of sustainability questions are actually a reflection of the exponential increase in urbanization across the
planet.
The
planet
has crossed the halfway mark a few years ago.
The 10 billion people on the
planet
in 2050 want to live in places like this, having things like this, doing things like this, with economies that are growing like this, not realizing that entropy produces things like this, this, this and this.
By the end of this year, there'll be nearly a billion people on this
planet
that actively use social networking sites.
The United States of America locks up more people than any other nation on the planet, and Louisiana is our biggest incarcerator.
And the reason why is that we live on a
planet
that is rapidly urbanizing.
So if we're seriously talking about tackling climate change on an urbanizing planet, we need to look somewhere else for the solution.
And if we have another eight billion or seven billion, or six billion, even, people, living on a
planet
where their cities also steal the future, we're going to run out of future really fast.
And what we're looking for is the tiny dimming of light that is caused by a
planet
passing in front of one of these stars and blocking some of that starlight from getting to us.
For one thing, we can determine that there's a
planet
there, but also how big that
planet
is and how far it is away from its parent star.
That distance is really important because it tells us how much light the
planet
receives overall.
Kepler won't find a
planet
around every single star it looks at.
So there's another interesting thing that comes from this realization that humans have a recent common origin in Africa, and that is that when those humans emerged around 100,000 years ago or so, they were not alone on the
planet.
And I would suggest, it is not only humanity that won't survive, but it is all species on the planet, as we've heard today.
Now this quest started four billion years ago on
planet
Earth.
So when you think about the improbable nature of what I'm going to tell you in the next few minutes, just remember, we came from stuff on
planet
Earth.
In your own mind, what do you believe the chances are that walking around on some other
planet
is non-carbon-based life, walking or oozing or something?
Which is a fantastic story, unless you think about humanity's footprint on the planet, and our ability to keep up food production.
What I'd like you to consider is: What does it mean when these dots don't represent the individual bases of your genome, but they connect to genomes all across the
planet?
They all hated each other, and all moved to different parts of the
planet.
If the
planet
Earth is annihilated by the Vogons to make room for an interstellar bypass, that's an eight A "aaaaaaaargh."
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