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Paradise. 967 Comm Ave., Boston. 254-2052. From Good Homes and Planet Be on Thursday...
...Three hundred years ago, most people who grew up on this planet never encountered a new idea," said the author of The Chosen and The Promise. "You lived you died inside a tight island of culture...
...Robinson has done the outstanding work of 10 people. He's one of the most important people on this planet," said Wood a graduate of the Harvard School of Education...
...necessary to visit and colonize other planets? Why do we feel compelled to travel to distant worlds? Aside from humanity's innate curiosity, some say that in the future, there may be a need to vacate planet Earth. Says astronomer Carl Sagan, "There is a long-term historical reason having to do with not putting all our eggs in one planetary basket, given the claims that global catastrophes have overtaken our planet in the past and that one is eventually likely to occur again, even if the chances are very slight...
Certainly nobody is to be blamed for having neuroses or for writing stories about fictional extraterrestrial beings. But fantasy and reality are not the same, and when it comes time to solve our planet's most pressing problems, we must push fiction aside. It's possible that an asteroid will collide with the earth in five thousand years, but if we are not careful, it will not collide with a living, breathing planet, but rather with a radioactive piece of dead rock or a fatally poisoned ecosystem. It's not destruction from above that we must worry; it's about...