Still Thinking About Earth Day

Earth Day, Redux

April 23, 2021

As Spacex – inventor of the re-useable rocket that returns to Earth – launches four astronauts toward the International Space Station, let’s take another look at what’s left of the home planet.

Prince Ea for National Geographic

Though this Earth is our home it is not ours. It belongs to all the four-leggeds, two-leggeds, the winged, rooted, rocks, water. All things wild and wonderful, all creatures great and small. Weren’t we taught to share? To clean up after ourselves? That an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure? That:

We are here to take care of this miraculous orb, not to take advantage of it.

Prince Ea circa 2015