idk if this is true or not but apparently he is in the process of putting a band of satellites around the Earth and the astronomers are upset.

I'm upset too if it is true.  Or I would be if I didn't have too much else to be upset about.

It's genetics, drek - can't turn back time can't reverse the results of what has already taken place.  like a fly caught in a web, attempts to try just deepen the catastrophe.

Tolkein's story holds water.

I live on the edge of the Pacific Ocean.  And the feeling I have is very much how fragile it is - the helicopters fly up the shoreline, the container ships are on the horizon, the rainforest is degraded, there are too many people with all our roads lights noise and buildings and yet all I can realise over and over is the magic is only felt there in the natural world.  

Yes you can say we are destroying the branch we are sitting on and it's a fact but it is a blanket fact that covers up a more complex picture of humanity where it can be seen that some people are destructive but not all of us.  so I guess that always brings the hope that the good in people will prevail given time or that the natural world will prevail - doesn't look good though does it!