What is our destiny? Does it matter? Is it bound up with 'our' planet? In my opinion, yes.
For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands.
It is a grief over the fate of the Earth that contains within it a joyful hope, that we might reclaim this Earth.
The universe's destiny has very little to do with the near-term destiny of Earth.
We shall meanly lose or nobly save the last hope of earth.
The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth is wrapped so tightly, should be the same abbreviation, which I now write large because I feel like it, which is this one: ETC.
The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.
If aliens came down and challenged us to a Battle of the Bands to decide the fate of Planet Earth, I would feel very confident putting early Van Halen forward as our champion.
