On a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam

I really don't have much to say this week, so on this hottest day I will just put Carl Sagan up for a quiet thought on our planet, he has quite a way with words.  The heatwave according to a BBC weather man is that the Jet stream has moved blocking in hot air over Europe,  Climate change is probably there as well as Alaska burns.

“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.”

― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space