Mr Spock, what's the intergalactic translation of 'barking mad egomaniacal enviromentalist earthling'?

1 - Insane envirofascist fantasy:

2 - Scientific antidote:

"The photo above was taken by Voyager 1 in 1990 as it sailed away from Earth, more than 4 billion miles in the distance. Having completed its primary mission, Voyager at that time was on its way out of the Solar System, on a trajectory of approximately 32 degrees above the plane of the Solar System. Ground Control issued commands for the distant space craft to turn around and, looking back, take photos of each of the planets it had visited. From Voyager's vast distance, the Earth was captured as a infinitesimal point of light (between the two white tick marks), actually smaller than a single pixel of the photo. The image was taken with a narrow angle camera lens, with the Sun quite close to the field of view. Quite by accident, the Earth was captured in one of the scattered light rays caused by taking the image at an angle so close to the Sun. The late Dr Carl Sagan was quite moved by this image of our tiny world.

"Here is an enlargement of the area around our 'pale blue dot'"

... and here is a clip of the late Carl Sagan talking about it. But what would he know? He was only an old-fashioned scientist. He wouldn't rate a piece in CiF.

With compliments to Pale Blue Dot from whom most of the above is nicked.

H/t to Fawkes who is keeping me busy today.

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