Earth Day: A Carl Sagan Quote

SpiroFlo shares a quote from Carl Sagan on the value of earth.

It’s Earth Day. That day that’s important enough to show up pre-marked on my calendar, but still gets enough flak for, a) 24 hours not being good enough for such an important issue (when something like Mike the Headless Chicken gets a two-day annual festival); and b) that even promoting Earth Day—using physical materials for advertisements, power and energy for online promotion—can be criticized for doing the very things environmentalists want us to scale back.

Personally, I think it’s too easy to be a cynic without considering the positive merits. All you need is one more gripe and you never need to build anything. You just tear down the work of others. So if nothing else, Earth Day reminds me of Earth-related things I’ve appreciated along the way, including this quote from Carl Sagan:

And the next part that usually gets left off in our “meme it down for me” (and include a picture of a cat) internet culture:

“It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.”

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Colin McKay Miller is the VP of Marketing for the SpiroFlo Holdings group of companies:

–SpiroFlo for residential hot water savings (delivered 35% faster with up to a 5% volume savings on every hot water outlet in the home) and industrial water purification (biofilm removal).

–Vortex Tools for extending the life of oil and gas wells (recovering up to 10 times more NGLs, reducing flowback startup times, replacing VRUs, eliminating paraffin and freezing in winter, etc.).

–Ecotech for cost-effective non-thermal drying (for biosolids, sugar beets, etc.) and safe movement of materials (including potash and soda ash).