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Good News

hermetic

(8,646 posts) Tue Apr 22, 2014, 09:33 AM Apr 2014

Find something to be happy about today, Earth Day (Tuesday April 22, 2014)

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Photo by NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI

The Earth as seen from Saturn is a reminder: The Universe is big, and we are not. Happy Earth Day!

The surface area of the Earth IS about 197 million square miles, though, so it's not really small. What we have here is precious, unique, and vital to us and ours. We don’t have an emergency backup, a summer home, a spot we can retreat to. The Earth is all we’ve got. We need to treat it that way.

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