#aarde #ruimtevaart 'The turquoise waters of the Bahamas, the red deserts in Australia and green lakes in an ochre yellow Tibet. As you hover above the earth, you continuously experience great moments of insight. You look straight down and see something majestic, a range of colors that sometimes can't be described.

If you look through it and see the black universe, the Earth seems to shrink into a fragile living cell surrounded by a thin membrane. I got a claustrophobic feeling. Not for myself, but for Earth. We're locked in the looming blanket of the universe, empty, cold, full of radiation. If it goes wrong, we have nowhere to go.

DamageFrom space you can see the overall picture. You can see the human activity, including the negative. Once the clouds are gone over the Amazon rainforest see a light green bone structure in the dark green: cut down rainforest along roads, partly as a result of livestock farming. Smoke plumes from deforestation and the draining fertile soil due to erosion, as a result of forest cover. Not only in the Amazon, but also in Borneo, Sumatra, Africa, Madagascar.

'From space you can see that we are exhausting the Earth. '