A Time for Urgency

晚上看到了一個 Talk: A Time for Urgency.
http://www.nantucketproject.com/danielle_fong_a_time_for_urgency

這是 Danielle Fong 在 The Nantucket Project 講的一段話。其實這個人名與這個活動對我來說都沒有特別的感覺，耐著性子看完，Danielle Fong 真是一個很厲害的年輕人。她指出我們的能源在未來會有很大的危機，這個危機會造成地球各方面有很大的變動，變動已經開始，所以我們要趁早的去計畫可以解決的方法，就算大家不同意她目前正在嘗試的方法，她也希望可以讓每個人都去正視她提到的問題。(至於什麼問題、什麼解法就去看 Talk 吧 ~)。

因為，我們的地球真的很珍貴。我覺得，我還是會繼續做一些讓北極熊哭的事情 XD，但我很喜歡她在 Talk 的結尾，從一本書節錄的一段話：

“From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”

― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space