Miles Astray

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LIVES I’VE NEVER LIVED | When I see you and the place you call home so tenderly, it reminds me of a life I’ve never lived, a dream I’ve never dreamed; but my longing is painless, my melancholy sweet, my smile pure. ___ Chennai / India · 2018 ___ milesastray.com/passages

MIND-BOUND | Onwards inwards. ___ Table Mountain, Cape Town / South Africa · 2017 ___ milesastray.com/lines ___ #southafrica #travel #writing #photography #milesastray

Unbelievable, this reality. ___ M I L K Y N O W A Y ! ___ Cabo Polonio / Uruguay · 2024 ___ milesastray.com/words ___ #uruguay #travel #writing #photography #milkyway #milesastray

explore: milesastray.com/essays-climate… ___ #earthday #earth #world #nature #writing #photography #essay #society #climatechange #globalwarming #milesastray

it is happening out of mere convenience and sheer greed. Because we are too lazy to take a bike instead of a car now and then, and because meat is pretty yummy, so we must have it all the time. The absurdity of manmade climate change is brutal.

There is no excuse we can offer future generations for wrecking Earth; and what we have for explanations, seems laughable now and will seem cruel then: the destruction of this perfectly fine planet is not happening out of necessity or because there is no other way—

with the last ice age seeming like a cute little winter compared to the Carnian pluvial episode with its 1-2 million years of rain, which followed an earlier episode of global warming. ___ explore: milesastray.com/essays-climate… ___ #earthday #climatechange #globalwarming #milesastray

Our inability and unwillingness to understand the dimensions and gravity of that change, won’t stop the fact from coming into effect. Earth has gone through some unfathomable climate seasons in the past—

The climate movement has lost its momentum, spinning out of the news cycle somewhere between pandemic and war, but its urgency didn't diminish alongside our attention. The planet is still burning, and if you sweep a fire under the rug, you’re only feeding the fire a rug.

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Greenwashing is a popular corporate pastime on Earth Day. Of course, the unwashed truth is that less consumption is even better than ethical consumption.