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Even cynical, selfish people will realize, one way or the other, that it's not in their self-interest to act in self-destructive ways.

~David Grinspoon

Topics: Act Cynical Even One Way Other People Realize Self-Destructive Self-Interest Selfish Way Ways Will

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Time and time again, our species has escaped existential threats by reinventing ourselves, finding new skills not coded in our genes to survive new challenges not previously encountered.

~David Grinspoon

Topics: Again Challenges Encountered Escaped Existential Finding Genes New New Challenges New Skills Our Ourselves Reinventing Skills Species Survive Threats Time Time And Time To Survive

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Humans are possessed, to some degree, with the power of foresight. Yet we so often learn things the hard way, through disaster.

~David Grinspoon

Topics: Degree Disaster Foresight Hard Hard Way Humans Learn Often Possessed Power Some Things Through Way

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I do comparative studies of climate evolution, and the interactions between planetary atmosphere and surfaces and their radiation environment, and try to understand the environmental factors that can affect a planet's habitability and how they change over time.

~David Grinspoon

Topics: Affect Atmosphere Between Change Climate Comparative Environment Environmental Evolution Factors How Interactions Over Planet Planetary Radiation Studies Time Try Understand

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As Earth's climate changes, we can expect more destructive hurricanes. As sea level and surface temperatures rise, more solar energy is trapped in the atmosphere, revving up the hydrological cycle of evaporation and precipitation and sometimes manifesting in terrifying storms.

~David Grinspoon

Topics: Atmosphere Changes Climate Cycle Destructive Earth Energy Expect Hurricanes Level More Rise Sea Solar Sometimes Storms Surface Temperatures Terrifying Trapped Up

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Thinking about the new epoch - often called the Anthropocene, or the age of humanity - challenges us to look at ourselves in the mirror of deep time, measured not in centuries or even in millennia, but over millions and billions of years.

~David Grinspoon

Topics: About Age Billions Centuries Challenges Deep Epoch Even Humanity Look Measured Millennia Millions Mirror New Often Ourselves Over Thinking Time Us Years

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Whenever I see a nighttime picture of Earth from space, with its glowing lights, I am stirred by its beauty.

~David Grinspoon

Topics: Am Beauty Earth Glowing Lights Nighttime Picture See Space Stirred Whenever I Am I See

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There is a real danger of unintended consequences, of encouraging people to give up. Pessimism, if it becomes a habit, can reinforce a narrative of unstoppable decline. If there is nothing we can do, that releases us from our obligations.

~David Grinspoon

Topics: Becomes Consequences Danger Decline Encouraging Give Habit Narrative Nothing Obligations Our People Pessimism Real Reinforce Release Unintended Unintended Consequences Unstoppable Up Us

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The planet Mars - crimson and bright, filling our telescopes with vague intimations of almost-familiar landforms - has long formed a celestial tabula rasa on which we have inscribed our planetological theories, utopian fantasies, and fears of alien invasion or ecological ruin.

~David Grinspoon

Topics: Alien Bright Celestial Crimson Ecological Fantasies Fears Filling Formed Invasion Long Mars Our Planet Ruin Theories Utopian Vague Which

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I don't see it as coincidence that the great acceleration of the Anthropocene influences on Earth came during the same decades as our first exploration of the other planets.

~David Grinspoon

Topics: Acceleration Came Coincidence Decades Earth Exploration First Great Influences Other Our Planets Same See

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: Unknown

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