“The Anthropocene crisis has fundamentally reformulated the age-old question as to the meaning of life. It could never have been answered generally at the isolated individual level. It would therefore be both common-senseless and scientifically meaningless to insist searching general answers at that level. It does no longer even make sense restricting it to the individual human species, in front of threatening human-induced global mass extinction. Presently it is also inconsequential at the cosmological level, unless and until life on other planets might be both discovered, understood and contacted.

At the planetary level, however, the possibility emerges to both pose the question and answer it scientifically. The anthropic principle can be formulated in a conceptually verifiable and vitally concrete sense of the term: The meaning of human life has become the prospect of developing abundant human relations, in saving naturally evolving life, as we know it, for the future at The Blue Planet.”