Well, you certainly aren't educated. What newsworthy about the article is precisely what you ridicule - that the damage is so widespread that it can be observed with the naked eye from space.
To a kid with a hammer, everything he sees is a nail.
A more educated, balanced and useful view of the facts would be:
Had the shuttle been orbiting 120 years ago, when the primary source of power was coal and wood, would the view from space be better or worse?