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Caves of Wonder

Rachel Boers
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A series of massive caves was recently discovered in Vietnam. The passage into the caves is about 300 feet wide and nearly 800 feet tall. And that's just the lobby. Inside the depths of the largest of the caves sits a real live jungle! 

This is potentially the largest cave in the world, and it was only recently discovered. What an incredible and awe-inspiring discovery that speaks to how little we really know about our world. As we currently focus so much of our attention on what we need to do to heal and fix the state of our environment, there is potential to lose perspective on who is the true parent in this situation. Although it is our responsibility to live mindfully and sustainably, still it is this earth who is our mother, and not the other way around.

 

 

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Kudos I think too many

Submitted by Bob Gnarly on Wed, 01/05/2011 - 17:43.
Kudos I think too many people with good intentions these days forget that, in the grand scheme of things, our impact is minimal.

There's minimal and then there's minimal

Submitted by Thom Foolery on Thu, 01/06/2011 - 12:54.

I would agree that in the grand scheme of things (e.g., a 6 billion year old homeworld, hundreds of billions of stars like our sun, etc.)  our impact is "minimal."

However, in that grand scheme of things, the impact that created the Chicxulub crater and wiped out the dinosaurs was also "minimal." 

Alas, human beings and all living things with which we are familiar don't live our lives in the scale of the grand scheme of things. I doubt that the dinosaurs were thrilled to make way for the ascent of mammals...

location

Submitted by powderhound on Mon, 02/14/2011 - 04:54.
do you know the location of this cave, i live only a couple of hours flight away so id love to see them