Environmental damage seen from shuttle?

The environmental propagandists have really topped themselves now. If we are to believe them, things are now so bad on earth, that you can see the damage from space! Everyone repeat after me: THE SKY IS FALLING! THE SKY IS FALLING!

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Commander Eileen Collins said astronauts on shuttle Discovery had seen widespread environmental destruction on Earth and warned on Thursday that greater care was needed to protect natural resources.

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"Sometimes you can see how there is erosion, and you can see how there is deforestation. It's very widespread in some parts of the world," Collins said in a conversation from space with Japanese officials in Tokyo, including Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.

"We would like to see, from the astronauts' point of view, people take good care of the Earth and replace the resources that have been used," said Collins, who was standing with Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi in front of a Japanese flag and holding a colorful fan.

Collins, flying her fourth shuttle mission, said the view from space made clear that Earth's atmosphere must be protected, too.

"The atmosphere almost looks like an eggshell on an egg, it's so very thin," she said. "We know that we don't have much air, we need to protect what we have."

Let's think about this, for a moment. These astronauts can actually see the trees (or lack thereof) from space? With the naked eye? We're supposed to believe that these astronauts were out doing their little space walk, making repairs, and happened to notice that the earth had too few trees? They noticed that we have a lack of air on earth?

Wow!