1. Suppose an alien spaceship will land on earth next week.
After many light-years of travel through space, some friendly little green creatures decide to get out and stretch their legs on our planet.
What would they report home?
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2. I guess their first description would be ecstatic.
Hidden in the fast, cold, and dark universe, they discovered a blue planet that brims with an incredible diversity of life, aided by ideal living conditions.
4. Humans like to dominate and destroy for short-term gains but fail to preserve the ecosystems they need in any long-term strategy to benefit them as a species and all life on the planet.
6. The 15th United Nations biodiversity conference discusses biodiversity loss and the collapse of ecosystems that sustain all life on the planet. It hopes to tackle biodiversity loss with concrete targets.
7. If all nations would follow up on their National Determined Contributions to reduce emissions, the world would still warm to a high fever of more than 3C.
9. If you compress the 4.5 billion years of earth's history into one year, those destructive humans only crashed the new year's party at the last minute.
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