David Grinspoon | Earth in Human Hands: Shaping Our Planet's Future
Recorded Jan 19, 2017
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Dr. David Grinspoon is the inaugural Chair of Astrobiology at the U.S. Library of Congress. With research focusing on climate evolution and the conditions for life elsewhere in the cosmos, he has consulted on interplanetary space missions for NASA, The European Space Agency, and the Japanese Space Agency. His technical papers, popular science writing, and lectures have appeared across a vast spectrum of media. “A remarkable synthesis of natural history, planetary science, extinction histories… and the human effect on the world” (Forbes), Earth in Human Hands challenges us to grow into our role as caretakers of our world.
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