Would be to be a professional environmental photographer, to record the effects of man on the environment and of the environment of man. I find beauty and a warning in the decay of what man has created, a bautiful assurance that the earth is constant, and life's resilience is stronger than the scratchings of man. A sense of continuity, a proof that this world endures; despite us or to spite us. You pick. As for the collective us, I read one time that man had been on earth only 17 seconds, based on age of the earth in billions of years (of course I could not google that exact timeline-so consider the 17 seconds suspect). That always struck me as telling, a sense that we are far more transitory than we would like to believe.
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