The beauty of old footage 8 August 2005

On Discovery Channel I saw footage of the sinking of an Austro-Hungarian battleship on June 10 1918 by an italian torpedo boat. The crew were milling around on the deck of the huge vessel, as if in disbelief that it could soon sink. When it did, it took many seamen with it. Could this be a metaphor of our current state of mind on spaceship Earth? Somebody mentioned on TV that the Earth is losing 3 bilogical spieces every hour or so.