The Earth Will Be Fine Without Us | Sue Swartz
The story of Noah is one of undoing. Of destruction and de-creation. Humans have transformed the Earth generation after generation and like proud children, we usually focus on the beauty of where our desire has led: advances in medicine, buildings that sweep the sky, global communication. It is so much harder to acknowledge the downside – pollution, greed, war, noise, ugliness. As we face a planet damaged, perhaps forever, by human action, the biblical deluge calls on us to consider who is to be saved and who left behind, how suffering takes shape, and what happens after the waters have wreaked their havoc. What would happen if time started anew?