The 'pale blue dot' photo of the Earth is 'the ultimate reminder that 'we are in this together,' at least in the cosmic context, for better and for worse,' writes DrRayJay for usatodayopinion.
It’s the ultimate reminder that “we are in this together,” at least in the cosmic context, for better and for worse. The expression is not merely a facile catchphrase or a comforting platitude in a time of despair. It reflects a profound and lasting, if seemingly more abstract, truth.
Of course, there are acute disparities in the distress and devastation resulting from the pandemic and the responses to it. Yet, almost everyone is affected by the virus’ spread in some way at some point. Virtually no one is truly shielded from its physical, emotional or economic toll. The interconnectedness of our species, dispersed as we are across the globe, and living in utterly different circumstances, has become starkly evident.
Short of a rare extraterrestrial hazard, such as an imminent asteroid collision or a super-energetic solar flare rushing towards the Earth, it’s difficult to imagine a menace that evolves so rapidly to threaten us on a global scale as a lethal pandemic. It has laid bare our delusions of mastery over nature.Likewise, the “pale blue dot” image underscores the awesome fragility of humanity, confined, as Sagan put it, to “a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.
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