During the first session of Re:WIRED GREEN, experts laid out their vision for maintaining hope in the face of unprecedented challenges to our planet.
it exists, is both a profound statistical anomaly and the very thing that makes human life possible. Human activity is upsetting that natural balance, but there's hope—and everyone needs to pitch in.
Earth existed for billions of years and experienced multiple mass extinction events before modern humans showed up. That's according to, a paleontologist at Rowan University who recovered some of the largest dinosaur skeletons on the planet. Humans have been around only 0.006 percent of Earth's history, while human civilization has been around for only a fraction of that. But we can learn from the time before we existed.
“If you take the time to learn the language of the rocks, they will learn to whisper to you. And all around the world they say the same thing: ‘It didn't have to be this way,’” he said. “We got lucky.”