Creating an Alien Planet

dc.contributor.author	Cairns, John Jr.	en
dc.contributor.department	Biological Sciences	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-01-23T02:36:28Z	en
dc.date.available	2014-01-23T02:36:28Z	en
dc.date.issued	2007	en
dc.description.abstract	For approximately 160,000 years, Earth s conditions have been in favor for humankind, thank to the biospheric life support system. Currently, anthropogenic wastes, from hazardous chemicals to carbon dioxide, are damaging the biospheric life support system at a rate unprecedented in human history. Even though scientific evidence of global heating and other types of climate change is overwhelming, unsustainable practices continue and consequences worsen. Humankind may suffer horrendous even before it accepts responsibility for the severe, possibly irreversible, damage to the biospheric life support system.	en
dc.description.notes	Supplementary information is included in a separate file	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10919/25035	en
dc.identifier.url	http://www.johncairns.net/Commentaries/Creating_an_Alien_Planet-2.pdf	en
dc.language.iso	en_US	en
dc.publisher	Virginia Tech	en
dc.rights	In Copyright	en
dc.rights.uri	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/	en
dc.subject	climate change	en
dc.subject	global warming	en
dc.subject	greenhouse gas emission	en
dc.subject	biospheric life support system	en
dc.title	Creating an Alien Planet	en
dc.type	Article	en
dc.type.dcmitype	Text	en

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