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the mortality of Gaia

To be aware of the mortality of Gaia,
to grow up not only knowing that one is going to die, and that the Earth is going to die, but also that it might happen soon.
I remember the feeling when I was told that the sun is growing and that in a few thousand years it will become impossible to live on Earth. a fw thousand years sounds scary enough. it feels foundational to one's cosmology.
But to feel that the whole world might not last a century...
Is this the fate of my children? or theirs, at best?

PHOTO LINO MAGALHAES

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