A vision of beauty

Nature is under relentless assault, entire ecosystems are being obliterated, an area of natural forest the size of Croke Park is burned or cleared every second. Around every 12 minutes, yet another species goes extinct.

The news is, to put it mildly, pretty bleak. Many of the postings on this blog are similarly downbeat. The waves of bad news seem to push further inland all the time.

Today, rather than battle with words, I’d like to let this short video clip below do the talking. The music, ‘Comptine D’un autre été’ is by French composer Yann Tiersen. This piece was made famous in the film ‘Amelie’.

It lasts barely two minutes and 12 seconds, and has been overlaid with some sublime aerial photography. The clip is from a Discovery Channel series called ‘Planet Earth’.

For me, it’s a moment of rare harmony between the overwhelming perfection of nature and man’s capacity to create, rather than destroy. Enjoy.

ThinkOrSwim is a blog by journalist John Gibbons focusing on the inter-related crises involving climate change, sustainability, resource depletion, energy and biodiversity loss
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2 Responses to A vision of beauty

  1. Arctic fox says:

    Thank you so much for that wonderful clip. Love the blog, its absolutely fantastic, its the best of its kind, so keep on blogging and I’ll keep on logging in!

  2. Sheila O'Brien says:

    Absolutely fantastic piece of music, left me light headed, I immediately went out and bought the Amalie soundtrack and ive played it right through, unbeliveable! Took my mind right off some of the doom and gloom

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