Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 3:16
#AskAnExpert | CRACKED EARTH : Shift Happens. What tectonic drifts make you nervous?
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Jean Baptiste has a PhD in this work, and I feel like his ability to make geology, the study of geology accessible to us, is really shown in the videos he produces. They're wonderful. And today we're walking the Earth, not aware of its movements on a day to day basis. But I did live in Northern California for 18 years, and I was always worried about earthquakes. And now that I live in Southern California, I still think about earthquakes
Jean-Baptiste Koehl
@Hilsen71 · 4:47
And these are the cycles of supercontinents where continents are creed together into major continents, supercontinents or rifted apart, like at present play Collide, play rifted apart. And this is important while first of all to know where we're headed, if there's still human life on Earth a few hundred million years from now, but also for planetary habitability and suitability of a planet or a moon to host life, for example. But really the processes that are acting at those two different time scales are intertwined
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:40
I asked this because I think it'll help people understand how they fit into the picture in their small lifespan. Can you help us chunk all this back to what an individual needs to understand, what they can do, if anything? And where you think there is an intersection between people's behaviors, their civic participation and the work you're doing, where is that connection so that people could feel a part of the conversation and understand their link in the chain?
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