We Want To Believe That We Can

Ironically The Very Energy, The Very Basis Of How We Know What We Know, Has Been Reliant On Having An Energy Source [necessary] To Build Rockets To Go To The Moon And Mars, To Support Airplanes That Fly, And Satellites To Give Us Our Communication.

Not Only Who Am I, But Who Are We? And Where Are We Going? It's The "we." It's The Social Connections That Are Special To Human Beings.

No Creature On Earth Ever Has Organized Themselves In Ways That We Have, With The Capacity To Alter The Nature Of Nature The Way We Have.

When I Was 12, We Moved From New Jersey To Florida. The Gulf Of Mexico Was Literally My Backyard. Every Day, I Could See The Ocean. At Low Tide I Went Out And Played In Seagrass Meadows That Used To Come Right Up To The Shore, Filled With Tiny Seahorses, Pipefish And Soft Corals. There Was So Much Life! But Then I Witnessed The Change, The Loss Of The Shoreline, The Loss Of The Mangrove Trees, The Loss Of The Seagrass Meadows. Shallow Bay Areas Were Turned Into Parking Lots.

Ice Ages Have Come And Gone. Coral Reefs Have Persisted.