Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from Earth’s Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis
Marine & Coastal Sciences Building -- Alampi Room 71 Dudley Rd, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesSpeaker: Michael E. Mann, University of Pennsylvania Abstract: For the vast majority of its 4.54 billion years, Earth has proven it can manage just fine without human beings. Then came the first proto-humans, who emerged just a little more than 2 million years ago—a fleeting moment in geological time. What is it that made this benevolent moment of ours possible? Ironically, ...