Yesterday I traipsed the world on google earth.
I found places I never new existed - cities dug away deep in African valleys, towns nestled in far north Alaska, tiny islands peppering pockets of little known seas. I felt my awe of the oceans skyrocket - their complex majestic trenches, marinated in a myriad of blues, rising up and down in ways that rival the grandest mountain ranges. I gazed at magical salt lakes ringed in burnt orange, bright white and neon green. I admired vast tracts of forest - bumpy canopy tops blanketing the earth so that we can all breathe. I found tiny settlements speckled across what looked like inhospitable land, fed here and there by the trickle of whatever water could be found. And then larger towns and cities hugging the banks of the world’s great rivers as, like thick pumping arteries, they work harder and harder to quench our warming world’s thirst. I saw airports etched onto delicate coral atolls, reef structures which from above looked like osteoporotic spines sinking into the ocean. I found burger restaurants abutting national parks and petrol stations in the middle of nowhere. And I saw tract after tract of land, once densely vegetated, abundant with flora and fauna, now flat and sad, covered in concrete and conflict. As I scanned the earth more and more, zooming in and out, in and out, it felt both meditative and tragic - a picture of paradox. A beautiful world crying out not so much for us to love and respect it but first of all to love and respect one another so that we can learn to live on this earth in peace.
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