Lost Keys

Physicists estimate some 30 billion exoplanets, or so, in the universe. These are planets organized around a sun or star. Likely there are many fewer habitable ones. In our solar system only 4 planets have solid ground on which to stand Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are mostly gas, ice and liquids. In our system only Earth is habitable, or hospitable to advanced life. The rising ocean will leave us the vascular dominance of sea and sky; it will sink the Keys below, to swim with the fishes. Get your remembrance of Duck Key now. Meditate on the fires of a new sun stoked by this, our piggish, willful schadenfreude exercised against our own home grown nature, this Earth.