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I didn't get a chance to witness either, but there will be plenty more events that will grow my photo albums soon enough. And a few friends demand that some of this year's photo endeavors must include me as the subject. I said "Sure, let me lose this winter flubber first."
Back to the lunar eclipse. How many remember that beautiful night, in October 2004, when we last saw that beautiful orange-red veil over our little neighbor up in the sky? I certainly do, and I was holding hands with someone very special, gazing at it together, moonstruck. As I looked up at the moon tonight, a few hours before it eclipsed, I caught myself wondering if he would see this event tonight and recall our little moment in the past.
If you viewed it and photographed it, then by all means share your photos. Reflect upon the hope that it represents too, for our moon will be our savior sooner than you think— within our lifetimes. By scrutinizing all of our current sustainability problems as well as new ones that threaten our environment, you will most likely agree. The human population explosion on Earth is the single most grim prospect that this delicate planet faces, and there are simply not enough resources on a small planet like this to sustain such a human "infestation." We must proliferate elsewhere, which means we must become a spacefaring civilization. As most of us know, the first stop in our grand scheme of colonizing space is the moon.
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Or is there? China's one-child policy is an attempt to solve its problem with overpopulation, though such a controversial initiative would never take form in Western countries. Its statistical result would be favorable for not only China but the entire world, but unfortunately the side-effects are too adverse to make this family planning policy useful. Add to this the fact that the policy has been tainted by reports of sterilization, forced abortions, and infanticide. In our own country, though AIDS became a disease that our government could attack head-on, it was the years of political blockades and inaction that turned it into a form of population control itself. Most other types of population control also fester with glaring human rights violations, such as sterilization, selective breeding, forced world wars, and worst of all... depopulation.
Don't laugh... there are actually depopulist movements happening right now, aimed at reducing human population to make our species sustainable on this planet for a longer period of time. They are not prominent groups of scientists, and they are very difficult to find and expose. These secret societies which are plotting to eugenically reduce our numbers will hopefully never be able to act upon their sinister ideas, but yet who is to label their efforts as destructive or immoral? From our point of view, killing 5 billion humans is a really shitty deal for us, but it's great for Mother Earth and gives her a second chance. If the scheme for our depopulation were to be a nuclear war and holocaust, then we lose nearly all of our population, but then nature also loses (for several hundred years anyway).
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There's just no doubt that we need to get off this rock, and as I mentioned above, within your lifetime you will see a few of your friends head for the moon and planets, dutifully wishing them safe travels through space, and an exciting life as a pioneer on a new world. One of those friends will be me.
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