The Future of Humanity Is Interplanetary

To survive the next thousand years, humans must save Earth and then venture beyond it

Adam Frank
OneZero
Published in
6 min readJan 31, 2019

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It’s easy to imagine we’re coming to an end.

We are, after all, facing a warming planet, ocean acidification, impending mass extinction, and immense resource depletion. It’s not such a leap to suggest that humanity has hit its…

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Adam Frank
OneZero

Astrophysicist: U of Rochester. Blog: 13.8 Orbiter. Sometimes NPR, NYTimes, Atlantic & others. Book: Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth.