Congratulations to all those on the Solar Impulse project, and congratulations to our making a giant step toward saving our home planet.
(I love the fact that one of the pilots and a driving force behind the project is named “Piccard,” as in Jean-Luc Picard of the Starship Enterprise. Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg truly have “gone where no man has gone before.”)
Watch the video of the landing below or at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7jnzzx5y1c.
I heard something on the news yesterday about the Middle East, that it’s heating up so rapidly that eventually humans won’t be able to live there.
Then I thought about the loooooooong, dehumanizing war there over rightful–and God-given–land ownership.
It made me think: politicians and heads of state can’t resolve the issue; I wonder if Nature will. And, for those who believe in God and that the earth is in His real estate portfolio (both sides do), would that mean that the Big Guy is stepping in to remind the combatants that they were all once one tribe and that the land doesn’t really belong to either of them?
Just wondering.
Hold off on that steak! Eating less meat and more fruit, vegetables, and grains makes us healthier while using less land and energy. That pound of beef took 5 pounds of grain, 2500 gallons of water, and lots of fuel to bring it to your table. In fact, since meat production accounts for 18% of greenhouse emissions, skipping meat one day a week is similar to removing 8 million cars from our roads.
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