Another Planet Defacer

Last year we purchased the movie Avatar for the Daughters... well, ok, yes we watched it too. I thought how very cool the concepts behind the movie were.  Even though I knew that the movie wasn't real there was a horrible idea of what the future holds for this planet  if "progress" continues unchecked.

As usual this week I did my normal every few days check of all my favorite blogs.  When I hit APOD I found this picture...

This is a bucket wheel excavator.... yup, it's real. It is used in open pit mining and is the largest mobile machine on the face of the planet. Did you know that some open pit mines can be seen from space....

When are we ever going to learn that we're killing our world around us?

I really want to die (when the time comes) knowing that my children and their children will have something lovely and somewhat pristine for their lives....

Somehow, seeing this picture, makes me think that it's not going to happen.

There's such a juxtaposition between looking at something like that and looking at the birds on the feeder or the deer outside my window.

What would you rather look at.... the above..... or this....

I leave you to ponder the awefulness that is becoming our planet...