What Adam Frank thinks about climate change
Professor of astrophysics at the University of Rochester, who works on star and planet formation, the search for technosignatures, and the astrobiology of civilisations.
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3 dated positions, 2024, in their own words. Our reading of what Adam Frank has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsWhat we were arguing in that paper is that it's an immature technosphere. Because right now, with climate change and all the other things we're doing, the technosphere right now is destroying the conditions under which it needs to maintain itself.
↗Adam Frank: Alien Civilizations and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #455youtube.com 3rd of 24 in this recording
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Their wordsSo, trying to establish a base on Mars it's going to be so hard that it is not even going to be close to being self-sufficient for a couple a century at least. So, it's not like a backup plan now, we have to solve the problem of climate change, we have to deal with that.
↗Adam Frank: Alien Civilizations and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #455youtube.com 11th of 24 in this recording
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Their wordsDoes every technological civilization trigger its own planetary crisis, its own climate Anthropocene crisis? And the answer we actually came up from doing models was like, yeah, probably.
↗Adam Frank: Alien Civilizations and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #455youtube.com 14th of 24 in this recording