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yaminerua · 2 years ago

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Thinking about the unique circumstances that led to life developing on Earth and the eventual creation of fertile soil and greenery, the growth of blossoming plants and towering trees, of soft grass and verdant green leaves that almost seem to glow as the sun shines through them

And I think of how we’ve yet to find another planet out there that has definitely undergone a similar process. That for all we know at this current point in time, this blue, watery rock with all its flowers and plants and trees, is the only one of its kind.

That in all of the vastness of space we might live on the one rock where wood exists, and in all of what little we’ve glimpsed of the universe, we share our home with something so rare and precious and beautiful that it might cease to exist anywhere else altogether if we let it die.

#Life worked hard to grow here and we don’t have the time to be trying to kickstart that process on another planet #we’ve got what we’ve got here and we could preserve it for as long as our own species manages to persist if we could just #start protecting it. Start actually valuing how precious an rare and irreplaceable it is #with climate change causing more and more fires and deforestation ravaging the wild forests #And the effect this all has on the production of food and the survival of animals and people #the rage I feel for those in high places who have sat stubbornly and let this happen despite evidence and fact #the fact that little people like me can and do try to do what they can on an individual level but that it ultimately needs the Big Changes #to have any real effect..#the fact I’ve heard about all this stuff since I was tiny and we should be further along in combating it by now #I’m just … looking at that post about the big trees has me feeling some kind of way

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