[Baps] March 21 | David Grinspoon | Earth in Human Hands: A Cosmic View of Our Planet’s Past, Present and Future

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THE THIRD ANNUAL WILLIAM F. BRACE MEMORIAL LECTURE


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A COSMIC VIEW OF OUR PLANET'S PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE


MARCH 21 » 4PM
MIT Campus, EG&G Education Center - Room 34-101

If you are a human, and you live on planet Earth, this talk connecting Earth, planets, climate, and life is for you. Treat yourself to Grinspoon's enthusiastic and finally optimistic view of where we can go from here.

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Senior Scientist at the Planetary Science Institute

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What are we doing here on this planet? Can a deep-time and deep-space viewpoint help us gain the perspective to create a sustainable civilization? In this talk, David Grinspoon will illuminate the unusual nature of the “Anthropocene,” our current time of human-driven planetary changes, in order to reframe our environmental predicaments as part of a larger narrative of planetary evolution.

This saga has now reached the pivotal moment when humans have become a major agent of global change, and geological and human history are becoming irreversibly conjoined. Is this a likely or even inevitable challenge facing other complex life in the universe? Possible implications for SETI (the search for extraterrestrial intelligence) will be considered, as well as the choices our civilization faces in seeking to foster a wisely managed Earth.



ABOUT THE SPEAKER

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David Grinspoon<http://mit.us11.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=670cb5a948f483912d2279794&id=35b5889229&e=4c0fffaefd> is an astrobiologist, award-winning science communicator, and prize-winning author. He is a senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute and adjunct professor of astrophysical and planetary science at the University of Colorado. Grinspoon's research focuses on climate evolution on Earth-like planets and potential conditions for life elsewhere in the universe. He is involved with several interplanetary spacecraft missions for NASA, the European Space Agency and the Japanese Space Agency. In 2013 he was appointed as the inaugural chair of astrobiology at the U.S. Library of Congress where he studied the human impact on Earth systems and organized a public symposium on the Longevity of Human Civilization.

His new book "Earth in Human Hands" was named a “best science book of 2016” by NPR’s Science Friday. His previous book “Lonely Planets: The Natural Philosophy of Alien Life ” won the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Nonfiction. Grinspoon has been recipient of the Carl Sagan Medal for Public Communication of Planetary Science by the American Astronomical Society.





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