Who Really Got Ahead Of Us?
Earth is the only planet known to us on which we know with certainty that life has existed and exists. And it is also the only planet known to have given rise to at least one industrial civilization, ours, meaning by this expression a civilization formed by beings capable of using external sources of energy such as fossil fuels or solar energy on a global scale.
A civilization with such characteristics has existed on our planet for no more than three centuries, that is, since the Industrial Revolution provided the means to transform local economies into a highly integrated system capable of ensuring the mass production of an ever-increasing number of goods and the ability to alter the environment globally.
As members of the only known industrial civilization, we face alone, at least for now, two boundless immensities: that of space and that of time.
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