Life clearly does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes. Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.
One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil.
I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.
So-called 'sustainable development'... is meaningless drivel.
We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA.
You mustn't take what I say as gospel because no one can second-guess the future.