Welcome to Terra Sapiens
Humans have been altering Earth for millennia, but only now are we wise to what we’re doing. How will we use that wisdom? (excerpt from EARTH IN HUMAN HANDS.)
Read the excerpt here.
New NPR piece I published (on the 13.7 blog)
A Planet With Brains? The Peril And Potential Of Self-Aware Geological Change.
by David Grinspoon.
Read it here.
Thank Our Lucky Planets: How Planets Really Do Shape Our Fate.
Human history has always been linked to the influence of distant orbits, from climate change (past and present) to our exploration of the solar system.
My newest Cosmic Relief Column in Sky & Telescope Magazine discusses how the orbits of the planets really have controlled our lives.
How long will humans last? David discusses the the question of when the Anthropocene will end in an article in Scientific American’s The Future issue.
In a new publication in the Geophysical Research Letters, David et al examines if Venus could have been the first habitable world in our solar system. Read the article here!
Coverage from the Big History Anthropocene Conference in Sydney, Australia! David reasons that if Aliens are out there, then they will have “a mature relationship with technology” if they were able to survive their technological adolescence.
Learn what a ‘technofossil’ is and what a ‘plastiglomerate’ is made of, in a new article in The Australian.
