Anthropogenic climate change has become a matter of intense debate in the public sphere, not only regarding how human civilization can respond to this threat, but even whether or not it is happening at all. University of Rochester astrophysicist Dr. Adam Frank describes a new, astrobiological framework for thinking about climate change that broadens our perspective on humanity's place on Earth. By considering current environmental dilemmas in a wider context — how life on Earth impacts physical planetary processes, and how civilizations throughout the universe might naturally induce climate change on their planets — Frank argues that we are better positioned to solve the compelling, existential problem ofclimate change.
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