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It’s funny. When we were alive we spent much of our time staring up at the cosmos and wondering what was out there. We were obsessed with the moon and whether we could one day visit it. The day we finally walked on it was celebrated world wide as perhaps man’s greatest achievement. But it was while we were there, gathering rocks from the moon’s desolate landscape, that we looked up and caught a glimpse of just how incredible our own planet was. Its singular astonishing beauty. We called her Mother Earth. Because she gave birth to us, and then we took her for granted and treated her like shit. So welcome to <strong>Earth</strong>… population, <em>you</em>. <em>Excerpted from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart presents EARTH (The Book): A Visitor’s Guide to the Human Race by Jon Stewart. Copyright 2010, by Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Group. All rights reserved. </em>