Word: planet
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That spirit runs throughout the The End of Nature in which McKibben argues that the process of global warming is killing off the very idea of nature by extending the reach of humanity throughout the planet...
...counter the process of global warming, McKibben says, humanity needs to give up its "defiant" attitude and begin to think of the planet as a whole...
...more than a decade because of technical debates and the Challenger explosion, will be getting under way. Astronauts on Atlantis will release the Galileo spacecraft, setting it on a six-year, 2.5 billion-mile journey to Jupiter. There the probe will take the first direct measurements of the planet's dense clouds and hurricane-like winds...
...rich legacy. The Greeks and Romans of classical antiquity will be remembered forever for their philosophical, technological and artistic masterpieces. We, too, have a legacy to leave to future generations: our mind-boggling technological breakthroughs. But we must ask ourselves for what our period will ultimately be remembered--a planet choked in its own decaying wastes...
Surely it is important for our leaders to protect the environment with the power of public policy. But it is equallly imperative that each of us make individual sacrifices if we are to bequeath a habitable planet to our children...