Imagine yourself to be a scientist, someone
who has spent his entire working career as
a biologist, studying the biosphere's ecosystem.
Someone who devotes his recreational time to
exploring rivers and lakes, mountains and
forests in a land where natural resources
abound, someone whose idea of pleasure is
achieved at an isolated distance from all that
is civilized to immerse yourself in the realm
that pure nature reserves for those intent on
observing wilderness close and personal. So
ascending steep mountainsides in such missions
as alpine backpacking to set up camp at a mountain
summit is the goal from which day trips to other
summits among glaciers and alpine lakes along
with marmots and picas and soaring eagles represents
peace and tranquility. Imagine looking down at
valleys in all directions, seeing nothing but wildfires
consuming forests below, a smouldering, charred
landscape of utter ruin, dark billowing smoke rising
steadily spreading and your mind turns to the image
of an atomic explosion, the cause of utter desolation.
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