Reblogged from The Scholarly Kitchen:
New satellite technology has yielded a stunning new set of views of the Earth at night. And a surprise -- in North Dakota, near the Canadian border, there is a bright spot. It's not a city. It wasn't there six years ago. It, too, is new. You'll see it in the video below as the US comes into view.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Q3YYwIsMHzw…
Sustainability and the real challenges facing planet earth - as the Martians would say, "planet earth is doomed it has a terminal infestation of of humanity"
