There's been a lot of talk the past few years about jobs, the economy, and how bad things have been if you're unfortunate enough to
live on planet earth right now.
Not exact matches
- God, the Absolute - humanity, the human condition in its universal characteristics, - male and female, though different, equal in
rights and dignity, - the cosmos, especially the
planet earth available, with its limited resources, for all humanity - the
planet's ecology as common essential source of
life and hence of concern for all humans, present and future, - the human conscience guiding each one interiorly would be known only to each one personally, - the each group of humans has a history and a religio - cultural background of its own is a universal factor that makes for particularity and different contexts for theology, - the realization that the present increasing globalization of relationships, economy and culture impinge
on theology and spirituality universally, though differently.
It was just by «random chance» that the sun is the perfect distance from the
earth so we don't get baked or frozen, that the moon is the
right distance and size so the tides don't flood us, that the
earth rotates so we are evenly heated, that water - which is absent
on other
planets and vital to our
life - is present here, that there is a balance of
living things to keep each other in check.
Right here
on Earth, most
life is microbial, and a careful reading of the
planet's fossil and geochemical record reveals it always has been.
And those five problems are climate change, petro - dictatorship — the rise of Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela — energy and natural resource supply, and demand constraints, and we see that from food to fuel today, biodiversity loss, the fact that we are
right now in the middle of the sixth great extinction phase in the
Earth's history that we know of; and finally something I call energy poverty, the 1.6 billion people
on the
planet we [who] still have no
on - off switch in their
life because they've no direct grid electricity.
If that is the case, then it follows that
life similar to that
on Earth would also develop in the
right conditions
on other, equivalent
planets.
As
Earth orbits through the Milky Way, our
planet should move continually through an unseen wind of dark - matter particles that pass
right through the
planet and everything
on it: your neighborhood, your
living room, your body.
The holy grail for finding worlds beyond
Earth that are hospitable to
life has been
planets just the
right distance from their mother stars where liquid water can exist
on the surface — the so - called «Goldilocks» zone.
«While this is not the detection of
life on another
planet,» lead author Dr. John Southworth, an astrophysicist from Keele University in the UK, said in a statement, «it's an important step in the
right direction: the detection of an atmosphere around the super-
Earth GJ 1132b marks the first time that an atmosphere has been detected around an
Earth - like
planet other than
Earth itself.»
It appears from paleo - science that there is more to it than that, the clouds that they generate as a control mechanism
on the
earth's temperature, this is yet another feedback mechanism for survival of all
life on the
planet and has been working for aeons of time,
right back to the earliest
life here... the
planet was made more hospitable to
life by
life itself, geo - engineering
on grand scale by the tiniest of plants in the sea... which outstrips the cleverest of plans by humans to geo - engineer and more relevantly does no harm to the
planet...
The movement to make ecocide a crime against peace under international law, led by UK - based lawyer Polly Higgins, as well as efforts to grant legal
rights to Mother
Earth, such as Bolivia has done, is exactly where we need to be going in terms of the highest level of environmental thinking: Recognizing that destroying whole swaths of the
planet, with little to no concern for the effect
on all the creatures that
live upon it, is not just unethical, unacceptable behavior, but is also a crime, a crime against humanity, a crime against
life itself.