If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow.

The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.

Excellent questions! Nikon Z7 Mark II, with the 14–24 mm lens. Most of the pictures are on Flickr. But the full collection is also archived with the Association of Space Explorers alongside photography from the international space station. I believe this is somewhere over the south Pacific Ocean.