Taking the Pulse of Our Planet | National Geographic

a lot of our mapping and a lot of our
work is about discovery still it’s still
that way but it’s equal now two
measurements that will help people make
better decisions at a scale that is
really important and that scale might be
the state of California scale or the
United States of America or a watershed
or the planet a lot of people think that
humans exist within nature and that we
either destroy it or we don’t destroy it
we’re in an age of earth management if
the human footprint and our capability
to change things for better or for worse
is so powerful now because of our
technology and how many of us there are
on the planet and now we actually have
this planet we’re sitting on that we
need to manage you know you can think of
water as the life wines is the blood
flow
and it’s really not just one cycle it’s
the interaction of things like the
carbon cycle and other biogeochemical
sites and as humans we have sort of
intervened
we have quickened the pulse of the
planet I don’t know if a heart attack is
imminent or not but we’ve had a huge
impact
we have to be doing what we can right
now to get the best possible information
this models the best understanding of
the physical processes so that we can
actually take meaningful action