Today is Earth day. Actually, I missed it. I went out and had a normal day, taught 4 students, took my daughter to ballet, wandered around Prague a bit, and the subject never came up. I didn’t realize it was Earth Day until just now, looking at facebook.
It’s a Beautiful World We Live In
No matter. I have a blog, and will use it today to sing the praises of the planet we all call home. It is a small world, as world’s go. Not as small as Pluto, or even Mercury, but small enough to get stepped on if you put us up against Jupiter, for instance. A small world, but one with an incredible amount of variety. There are vast oceans, which have an alien world beneath them, with life forms fare weirder than what you normally see on Star Trek. On the part of the planet where humans can survive without special equipment, we have mountains, and forests, and mountains covered in forests, and vast, fertile plains , and rain forests and rivers and lakes, and deserts, as fierce and beautiful as they are useless, and vast stretches of snow and ice. We have beautiful sunrises and sunsets.
Earth has air that is absolutely, perfectly suited to our lungs because this is where we evolved and, as sure as we have adapted to it, that’s how perfectly suited it is to us. We can drink it’s water and eat the fruits which dangle, thicker than Christmas ornaments, from many of its trees. We can lie on its warm, green hillsides on a summer evening and look out and see the billions and billions of stars in the galaxy and know that no matter what wonderful and amazing worlds we may find out there eventually, there will never be another Earth.
We should all work a little bit harder at not fucking it up.
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