I remember a song from back in the sixties that had a line “It’s too late to say you’re sorry.” I think it is too late to say we are sorry about how we have, are and will be destroying the Blue Marble.

            We have dug huge pits for minerals we wanted and left piles of waste we didn’t want, polluting for centuries. We have tunneled for other minerals which ruin water tables and piling huge amounts of slag to pollute. Our search for oil and natural gas has destroyed the underground, surface, and air at the well head and downstream to the refineries, stations, and users. Let’s not forget the mountains of trash we have generated by our wasteful habits. Most oceans have a plastic island with the Pacific Ocean’s being thousands of square miles. Thousands of square miles of the Gulf of Mexico are oxygen-starved from fertilizer and manure runoff in the Mississippi River watershed.

            Global warming may end up making the Blue Marble uninhabitable to life just because we have dumped billions of years of carbon sink into the atmosphere in a few centuries. Each future generation will find life more difficult until life is no longer livable.

            We will try to lessen some of the effects of the damage we have done but it is too late to keep the final extinction from happening.