Human Impact

IAS Trustee Sir Martin Rees spoke with Scientific American to discuss threats to Earth and humanity, challenges facing the scientific community, Martian communities and utopian societies, and more.

Experts say that human impact on Earth is so profound that the Holocene must give way to an epoch defined by nuclear tests, plastic pollution, and domesticated chicken. Martin Rees, Institute Trustee and Member in the School of Natural Sciences on...