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The sky explodes with dancing light, flooding the night sky with a multitude of colour that creates such beauty, tears brought on by the sheer magnificence, slowly escape, because appreciation for this kind of beauty is not meant to be contained.
I wish I could take credit for these photos, but, sadly, it became too cloudy where I am to get shots that would do it any kind of justice. Thankfully, that was not the case in other parts of the Province.
This, sits, to me, as proof, once again, of how we, as humans, live in a balance of insignificance and importance, as far as our relevance to the planet.
The only reason we carry any importance whatsoever is because we need to be accountable to our planet for all of the damage we have done, and continue to do. Through ignorance, greed, and pride, we have stomped all over her, all along thinking we are doing good.
Progress comes with a price tag. Just like all things. But, I can't help but wonder if we knew back at the beginning of the industrial age, what we know now, would we have, collectively, done anything at all differently?
Maybe if different people had been at the helm. Maybe if other countries had been leading the pack. May if greed hadn't been the force behind most decisions. Maybe if....
I mean, don't get me wrong, a tonne of good has come from progress. But, not only good. We live healthier, longer lives. We have eradicated many diseases, and cured a lot more. Communication. I mean, we are one of the Jetsons, at this point, when it comes to that. Travel, leisure, hell they became actual activities. Food, in many regions, became something the privileged actually came to have too much of. Enough to not only allow eating as a form of recreation, but to the point of abundance that it becomes expensive garbage, and contributes to obesity. Some food becoming so processed that even with all of its abundance, obesity and malnutrition are no longer mutually exclusive.
We can travel from one side of the planet to the other in a matter of hours. Long, grueling, cramped hours, but hours all the same.
Doctors can assist other doctors from different corners of the globe in real-time.
We have entire sets of encyclopedias at our fingertips that, when used in concert with good critical thinking skills, can be an invaluable tool.
But...
When we look upward at the dancing sky, we need to allow ourselves to understand just how small we, as a human race, actually are. The earth, this planet, our home, was around for millions of years before the earliest of us crawled from the ooze, and it will remain long after we are gone.
We are the only species in nature that does damage. And the sad thing is, is that we do it on purpose. All other creatures, plants, and matter of all kinds work together in one way or another to benefit her. If not in the short run, in the long run, for sure.
We need the planet for us to flourish. Whereas, she would flourish much better without our presence.
So, what do we do? We know better now, we should be doing better than we are. It's like we know we've been shitty parents but are refusing to take the parenting classes seriously. Then, we double down by not implementing the skills we acquired by sheer osmosis because we sure as hell didn't take any notes or pay any real attention along the way. Then, we clutch our pearls in righteous indignation when she becomes broken, damaged, and begins to rebel.
We know better now.
Let's do better.
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May look up, look around, and see all the chaotic beauty and devastation we have caused.
May we do better.
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