Sentences with phrase «planetary surfaces before»

Fermi suggested there may be no intelligent life in the universe, outside of brief episodes confined to planetary surfaces before they develop science and end themselves.

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By attempting to understand the subterranean structures of the planet and how they modify its surface features, Kircher could be said to have exhibited a «planetary» consciousness three centuries before the Gaia hypothesis proposed that we look at Earth as a giant self - regulating system.
The point you are trying to make is so vital, so incredibly significant, that I would hope others could be encouraged to set their subjective discomforts aside, to put their ignorance and / or denial of reality aside, and acknowledge the ominously looming, human - driven predicament before humanity, the one apparently induced by the huge scale and skyrocketing growth rate of global human over consumption, overproduction and overpopulation activities now overspreading the surface of the wondrous planetary home upon which God has blessed us to live so well.
If per human overconsumption of scarce resources; unbridled economic globalization overspreading the surface of our planetary home; and the skyrocketing increase of absolute global human population numbers could be occurring synergistically in our time and could have something to do with the distinctly human - driven predicament which looms ominously before humanity, does it make sense to consider, just for a moment, what might to done to set limits on these overgrown human activities?
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