[ WP ] You are a spaceman watching the destruction of Earth below you , what are your final thoughts ?

I know I should be sad but this has been a long time coming. What did we expect? We treated the Earth like crap and by the time we realized that it was far too late. Oh, sure, people tried to reverse some of the damage and in the latter half of the twenty-first century we actually made some decent strides towards changing things. It was just too little too late. 
 
 Still, it's hard to watch her go. 
 
 I was born there even if I do n't remember it much. I remember trees but I ca n't be sure if those were on Earth or on De Luna Vega, the colony where I grew up. There were trees in the north. Remnants of an old, forgotten terraforming project back before they really got the hang of it. It could have been that. 
 
 Or it could have been any one of the forests on Earth's surface that were starting to ignite in flame. It was beautiful in a morbid sort of way. Scientists figured that someday we could go back. We could use the same sort of terraforming equipment to reclaim her. Something we should just leave her smoldering. A warning to future generations that this is what we did and this is what we can do again. But I think we should go back. Someday. When we're ready. 
 
 As I stand here watching her burn, I like to think that next time we'd do better.
