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Jun. 7th, 2005 01:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
omorkaOh, my fucking gods . . .
Composite satellite photo of the Earth at night
*shiver*
*shudder*
I cannot even begin to describe the sheer revulsion this image invokes in me. Just . . . looking at it makes my gorge rise. (Not that that's difficult, but that's not relevant.)
And there's nowhere that's safe. A few interior deserts are as close as it gets. Just . . . that ugliness as far as human eyes can see.
Gods. How can we be so stupid? Of all the things I've seen in the past ten years, honestly, even more than the personal human cruelties and the idiocy of war . . . this makes me feel the most hopeless about our future as a species. How could we possibly do that to the world?
Are we so deeply in thrall to the Light that we cannot leave blessed darkness anywhere?
Now I'm seriously tempted to buy a gun and learn to use it, if only to try and fight that, one lightbulb at a time . . .
Composite satellite photo of the Earth at night
*shiver*
*shudder*
I cannot even begin to describe the sheer revulsion this image invokes in me. Just . . . looking at it makes my gorge rise. (Not that that's difficult, but that's not relevant.)
And there's nowhere that's safe. A few interior deserts are as close as it gets. Just . . . that ugliness as far as human eyes can see.
Gods. How can we be so stupid? Of all the things I've seen in the past ten years, honestly, even more than the personal human cruelties and the idiocy of war . . . this makes me feel the most hopeless about our future as a species. How could we possibly do that to the world?
Are we so deeply in thrall to the Light that we cannot leave blessed darkness anywhere?
Now I'm seriously tempted to buy a gun and learn to use it, if only to try and fight that, one lightbulb at a time . . .
