HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026731.txt
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026731.txt
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The speaker at Cornell University gives an inaugural Carl Sagan Memorial Lecture emphasizing the need for optimism and thinking globally, rationally, and long-term.
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The speaker at Cornell University gives an inaugural Carl Sagan Memorial Lecture emphasizing the need for optimism and thinking globally, rationally, and long-term. The lecture discusses how human activity has caused faster changes in vegetation, land use, carbon dioxide levels, radio wave emissions, and small projectile launches over just a few thousand years compared to Earth's 4.5 billion year history. This rapid change could not have been predicted by hypothetical aliens observing the planet.
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