We Aren't Going to Mars
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Peter Schulze |
TEDxAustinCollege
• September 2017
If we can’t keep Earth livable, we can’t make a dead rock in outer space livable and keep it that way. Thus, we’ve nowhere else to go. We must take care of this planet, but we aren’t. Why? We are using the wrong criteria for deciding when to act.
Peter Schulze is a professor of biology and environmental science at Austin College, where he directs the College’s Center for Environmental Studies. He holds a Ph.D. in biology from Dartmouth College, serves on the editorial board of the journal Freshwater Biology, and was the J. Herbert Hollomon Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering. Schulze and his wife, Helen Schulze, M.D., have two sons, Ben and Matt.