Foi esta noite, agora, há pouco mais de cinco minutos que recebi uma mensagem de correio electrónico da colega, Técnica de Saúde Ambiental, Paula Rodrigues.
“Uma perspectiva bem diferente” era o assunto da mensagem. Nela, uma hiperligação para um vídeo do YouTube fazia antever mais do mesmo. Piada!… Risota!… À laia de “apanhados”.
Ainda assim fui ver.
Nem de propósito… “O Pálido Ponto Azul” a que Al Gore havia feito referência no “An Inconvenient Truth” passava diante dos meus olhos, ao som de Carl Sagan.
Contemplem e meditem…
«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.»