what measures can we implement to change the current course of civilization?

This new story connects us with life and the Universe, placing us as part of a biosphere that exists only because the Universe has allowed us to be,

I have organized this history into ages, which I call the Four Ages of Astrobiology.4 The Physical Age starts with the Big Bang and the synthesis of the first atomic nuclei and goes all the way to the formation of stars and planets. The Chemical Age moves on to the synthesis of heavier chemical elements and simple biomolecules, leading eventually t

life is a rare event in the Universe and that Earth is a rare planet.

We use words like “volition,” “urge,” “autonomy,” and “control” to describe living systems and even biospheres

But we can transform it morally, by respecting and honoring what we kill, by mindfully replenishing what we harvest.

But I know and you know that fires are not alive. We wouldn’t consider the spreading of a fire as a form of reproduction. We wouldn’t call oxygen combustion a form of metabolic process. Why is that? For starters, fires don’t have a history. They don’t have a gene storage mechanism they use to transmit their characteristics as they spread. They also

Gravity enveloped the whole Cosmos with its embrace. What many people don’t know and schools don’t teach is that, to Newton, gravity was inseparable from God.

The Universe has a history only because we are here to tell it.