Look again at that dot. That's here. That's
home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever
heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate
of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and
economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every
creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young
couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every
teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every
"supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our
species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast
cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and
emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters
of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the
inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable
inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how
eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.Our posturing, our imagined
self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the
Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely
speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this
vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from
ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our
species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the
moment the Earth is where we make our stand.It has been said that astronomy is a
humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better
demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our
tiny world. To me, it
underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to
preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
-- Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994
A
profound and a powerful statement by the author and an astronomer, inspired to
write the book “Pale Blue Dot” after seeing the picture taken by Voyager 1 a
space probe in 1990 while leaving our solar system on the suggestion of the
author. It is now 23 years down the line and there has been no change in the
posturing of the humans, the same self importance, greed, plunder, killing and mayhem
continues without any thoughts of saving this small dot of the universe, the
earth.
The
people of this world needs to pause and ponder on the above statement, for we
have only this earth to live in at this point of time and no other suitable
planet is available to migrate even in the distant future in spite of the immense
technological advancement. So in order to ensure that our future generation’s
lead their lives like we have done, we all inhabitants of this planet need to
take steps to prevent the degrading of the already fragile environment urgently
instead of bickering on unwanted materialist values. Read here . Read Here The blog i wrote recently about the planet heading towards disaster
Happy Environment
day friends and i hope everyone ones sees this the way Carl Sagan wrote.
Information
Courtesy: Google/ Wikipedia: - An interesting Whatsapp video from a friend showing
the image of the earth taken from Voyager triggered me to search for Pale Blue
Dot and pen few line in addition to Carl Sagan’s message to the humanity
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