One Finite Planet

One Finite Planet

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A different perspective: Humans maybe the greatest threat to life on Earth but also the only hope.

The title ‘one finite planet’ can be mistaken to be yet another proclamation of how we live on this amazing planet which could even be unique, and we humans are foolishly placing it all at risk. Boring.

No. Instead, the perspective is we are living on a planet that is naturally hostile to humans, where nature dictates only a limited total amount of life, can only exist for a limited time, and that time is almost at an end. When seen from this perspective, even the environment mission changes from just not interfering, to the more complex task of tackling the challenge of overcoming nature, while yes, quite importantly, not bringing life to an early end in the process.

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Our dying planet: Timeline of Our Solar System.

Imagine spaceship of humans visiting our solar system and landing on Earth. Outside small interval highlighted in green window on the timeline, human survival on the surface would require a spacesuit, and outside the yellow highlighted time window, even the oceans would only contain organisms visible by microscope. Visit today, and the visitors have missed peak life which occurred 500 million years in the past, and instead see life in gradual slow decline to its imminent demise. Life is fragile, and it is dying.

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One Finite Planet: The disruptions avoiding outgrowing it.

It was recently suggested that “one finite planet” sounds like this site is yet another website dedicated what I label “righteous environmentalisms“, and sustainability alone. But sustainability alone on a finite planet can be like treading water to avoid drowning: only a short-term solution and not much fun.

Some people mistakenly feel that life on Earth might be better off without us humans, but that ignores the reality that the amount of all life on Earth has already halved from peak life and the most recent “garden of Eden event” was over 500 million years ago, and without intervention from the only species so far to have achieved accessorised evolution, life will die out anyway and sooner than most realise, with whales and mammals and other complex species the first to go. If we get it wrong, we could bring the end even sooner, but us humans getting it right is the only solution in sight.

Instead of a focus on just maintaining the status quo as if time stood still, the focus of these pages is more how did we get here, where exactly are we now, and where should we head next. The conclusion at this time is that what we humans face next, is to deal with the disruptions of adjusting to the reality that we now have the ability to outgrow the planet.

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The Future of Medicine

Over the past 2 days I been given a view of the possible future of medicine, attending two lectures: ‘2084: Future Medicine’ and ‘Nanotainment‘. I

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Next steps for mankind don’t include the Sci-Fi dream of a new home planet.

There is a dream, often explored in science fiction, where humanity inhabits not just one planet, but many.

While the dream is still centuries away, as is ‘Earth 2.0‘, the reality, working towards small outposts on Mars or the Moon or even beyond is overwhelming compelling and can provide many rewards.

Humanity may get back up outposts, but for centuries, will have no real second home, and over 99% of us will still need to live on our one finite planet.

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Finite Planet

Our dying planet: Timeline of Our Solar System.

Our dying planet: Timeline of Our Solar System.

Imagine spaceship of humans visiting our solar system and landing on Earth. Outside small interval highlighted in green window on the timeline, human survival on the surface would require a spacesuit, and outside the yellow highlighted time window, even the oceans would only contain organisms visible by microscope. Visit today, and the visitors have missed peak life which occurred 500 million years in the past, and instead see life in gradual slow decline to its imminent demise. Life is fragile, and it is dying.

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A different perspective: Humans maybe the greatest threat to life on Earth but also the only hope.

A different perspective: Humans maybe the greatest threat to life on Earth but also the only hope.

One Finite Planet: The disruptions avoiding outgrowing it.

One Finite Planet: The disruptions avoiding outgrowing it.

Next steps for mankind don’t include the Sci-Fi dream of a new home planet.

Next steps for mankind don’t include the Sci-Fi dream of a new home planet.

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