Planet
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I believe that for every person on the
planet.
Eventually, I resigned as principal investigator on our Venus experiment because a
planet
changing before our eyes is more interesting and important.
I had been using the first line of the NASA mission statement, "To understand and protect the home planet," to justify my talks.
The deep ocean is also gaining heat at a smaller rate, and energy is going into the net melting of ice all around the
planet.
Shrinking ice sheets make the
planet
darker, so it absorbs more sunlight and becomes warmer.
PV: And 7.4 billion people on the
planet.
Only one thing grabbed my attention, and it's that
planet
called Earth.
So what I want to do today is show you some things about this planet, about the oceans.
I want to take you from shallow water down to the deep water, and hopefully, like me, you'll see some things that get you hooked on exploring
planet
Earth.
The largest waterfall on the
planet
is actually under the ocean, up near Iceland.
Seven billion people live on this
planet
and all of us are impacted by the sea, because the oceans control the air you breathe, the water you drink, the food you eat.
And so I hope today, by showing you some of this, it's given you some new eyes about this planet, and for the first time, I want you to think about it differently.
If someone comes to you with a plan that really looks like it might be part of this solution, are you ready to invest in those technologies, even if they aren't maximized for profits, they might be maximized for the future health of the
planet?
Now we all need to focus on the many, many ways technology can lead us back to our real lives, our own bodies, our own communities, our own politics, our own
planet.
This is where the last little nugget of totally unknown territory remains on this
planet.
The next step after that is to test it in Antartica and then, if the funding continues and NASA has the resolution to go, we could potentially launch by 2016, and by 2019 we may have the first evidence of life off this
planet.
But, if you were truly bold you could get it there, manufacture it, and it would be the most dramatic demonstration that you could do something worthwhile off this
planet
that has ever been done.
Let's first visit our planet, but at night, and from space.
This is what our
planet
looks like from outer space at nighttime, if you were to take a satellite and travel around the
planet.
And the thing you would notice first, of course, is how dominant the human presence on our
planet
is.
We see cities, we see oil fields, you can even make out fishing fleets in the sea, that we are dominating much of our planet, and mostly through the use of energy that we see here at night.
This map shows the presence of agriculture on
planet
Earth.
We're using a
planet'
s worth of land already.
So we have this incredible presence today of agriculture dominating our planet, whether it's 40 percent of our land surface, 70 percent of the water we use, 30 percent of our greenhouse gas emissions.
So without a doubt, agriculture is the single most powerful force unleashed on this
planet
since the end of the ice age.
So what we have to do, I think, is invent a new kind of agriculture that blends the best ideas of commercial agriculture and the green revolution with the best ideas of organic farming and local food and the best ideas of environmental conservation, not to have them fighting each other but to have them collaborating together to form a new kind of agriculture, something I call "terraculture," or farming for a whole
planet.
How do we feed a growing world without destroying the
planet?
Irrigation is the biggest use of water on the
planet.
Yeah, so we face one of the greatest grand challenges in all of human history today: the need to feed nine billion people and do so sustainably and equitably and justly, at the same time protecting our
planet
for this and future generations.
Yes, we care about the
planet.
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