From this vantage-point, the earth will be made visible in its entirety. Against the backdrop of black space, the earth will be seen in all its blue nakedness. Exhibitionism on a global scale. The perverse spectacle of the exhibitionist is not staged shamelessly for the other, but for his own benefit. The other is a mere prop to locate his gaze, to see his own obscenity.
Environmentalism is the attitude of a conqueror's benevolence towards the conquered.
Letting the vanquished live on borrowed time, as exemplary spoils of an accomplished deed. Both are man made. One a fossil of the past, the other a fossil of the present. In the virtual museum, the earth will always be there, preserved like a mummy wrapped in blue, free to see whenever we want with a click of a mouse-button. We will have to see it again and again on the screen, because we have no memory.