And because it was the most habitable of the new planets by orders of magnitude, it was developed. Because it was developed, it was influential. Beca… - James S. A. Corey

Still. Maybe some good can come out of it.
I admire your psychotic optimism.

Miller was staring at him like an entomologist trying to figure out exactly where the pin went.

But under it there was a faint, not-unpleasant odor of rotting seaweed and salt. The ocean, just outside, seeped into everything. An olfactory reminder to everyone passing through the Ellis Island of the space age that Earth was absolutely unique to the human race. The birthplace of everything. The salt water flowing in everyone’s veins first pulled from the same oceans right outside the building. The seas had been around longer than humans, had helped create them, and then when they were all dead, it’d take their water back without a thought.
That, at least, wasn’t a lie.