Sometimes, like now, I am in awe of how Civilisation is a tiny eency weency blip on the timeline of the planet. And look what has happened during that blip. Empires have been built and destroyed. Cities have sprung up on a vast scale. Cars, computers, telecommunications, aviation happened. Penicillin was discovered. The atom was discovered and then split. Billy Ray Cyrus had a hit with "Achy Breaky Heart". All manner of mind boggling things have happened. Man has created a big, heaving, carbon belching monster that is destroying, at an alarming rate, what has taken billions of years to evolve. Terrifying and awe inspiring all at once.