Poet T.S Eliot’s The Hollow Men-
“This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper.”

After 10 years the cloud would be lifted, the soot would have finally fallen from above
and temperatures would start to rise. And what would be left of us? You could call it
the end of the world. You could say all hope is lost. Or you could say something else…
Where we stand is not destroyed, we are not in ruins but in something waiting to be built.
Waiting to begin again. From these ashes we can rise and create beauty. The crumbling
walls are not a representation of our failures but a reminder of the lessons we have learned.
So we continue on. Not because we want to but because we have to.

In the words of Carl Sagan:
“A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. One of the great revelations of the age of space exploration is the image of the earth finite and lonely. We are one planet.”