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What would it mean to abandon Earth wholesale? The proposition to throw one’s hands up and forfeit our planet is a seductive one — things are looking pretty irredeemably grim. As the world continues ...

Research indicates that the planet could theoretically support human life if major environmental changes were achieved, but current scientific assessments show that reaching those conditions would ...