REIDO'S BLOG
It is Earth Day today. I Googled Earth Day images and saw all these graphics of trees, water, grasses numerous shades of green. It is day where “Green” seems to be the phrase of choice and the perfect natural scene of mountains, rivers, trees, grasses, birds in the air and mammals on the ground has become that image of what we humans think earth should look like, an egocentric spin on things earthly. Well the planet isn’t all that. In fact much of it is stark, dry, many shades of brown and tan up against the ocean of blues and greens. The Namib Desert in southwest Africa is one such place. I love deserts. This is as natural as it gets and it doesn’t depict what this planet should look like in the eyes of some. As a Geographer Earth Day is everyday as I am fascinated by this planet and all that it holds. I will say one thing….when someone says do these “things” to save the planet what is really being said is “do these things to save us, because let’s be truthful here, in a 100,000 years the earth will be orbiting the sun and we won’t be on the planet for the ride. The Earth will survive “us”. It is we who won’t survive “us!”
