There is dangerous comfort to be drawn from deep time. An ethical lotus-eating beckons. What does our behavior matter, when Homos sapiens will have disappeared from the Earth in the blink of a geological eye? Viewed from the perspective of a desert or an ocean, human morality looks absurd – crushed into irrelevance. Assertions of value seem futile.
This is from Robert Macfarlane’s Underland.
The section made me think of Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan.
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