(#6137) Our planet our home!

     I saw a saying earlier this morning that has had me thinking about it. It went like this: "Earth doesn't belong to us we belong to it." Throughout our human history that seems to be the fact of things. Yet, as we humans have gained in knowledge and technology the balance isn't all on the side of we belonging to the Earth. We still belong to the Earth but the balance is shifting a bit toward the Earth belonging to us. Not a lot but still a bit of shifting. There will come a time in the future, if we humans don't fuck up our modernization, when the balance will have shifted closer to the Earth belonging to humans.
     We are not at that time in the future yet so appreciating the fact that we belong to the Earth should be our present understanding. Given that, we need to find a proper humility toward preserving our planet. Our current environment is not heading in the correct direction. Although we have survived the worst of the industrial Age we are still polluting our natural resources in ways that cannot be sustained. The land, air, and water are filtering the residue of our demands for cheap abundant dirty energy. Yet the filtering comes at a cost. We humans are now ingrained with particles that are not healthy nor life preserving. Our human biology is changing from dynamic to shades of anemic.
     The wind, the Sun, and the water can give us energy to satisfy basic needs. We are currently on the threshold of nuclear fusion as a source of energy and when that becomes readily available all unnecessary dirty energy sources should be halted. The problem is greed by those who control vast amounts of dirty energy sources and their influence among the greedy who are in politics. If we are ever able to survive as a species beyond our home planet we should learn from our mistakes here to make whatever new home we inhabit an example of we belonging to it.