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I try to eat as near perfect as possible, but once in a while I eat for my taste buds. For example, I occasionally like to treat myself to a small cup of chocolate frozen yogurt - plus toppings. ”
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. ”
Certainly for me, as an astrobiologist, science fiction has played an important role. One of the quandaries of our field is that we are trying to study and search for something - life - that we can't define in a rigorous way. We only have one example of a biosphere, so we can't really give a good definition. ”
We need to have a vision of the world we want to create so that we can see ourselves as collaborators with future generations in the project of shaping it. ”
Now, humans have become a dominant force of planetary change and, thus, we may have entered an eon of post-biological evolution in which cognitive systems have gained a powerful influence on the planet. ”
The way the tour has developed has been as good an example of that as you would like to see. ”
Unfortunately, celebrity is a powerful thing. It can influence people, but if it can influence people in a good way, then that's a great thing. ”
We all live by example. ”
I think if you have an opportunity to live by example and make people aware of positive changes in our society, I think it's a great thing. ”
The elite isn't leading anymore. It's trapped. ”