Alright, we get the picture, we're riding the world too hard and she's gonna buck us off. Yep.
Yesterday was 36 without the humidex reading, 46 with. I can barely move. Also last weekend I spent a couple hours with only a bit of sunscreen on my shoulders.... I then spent the next three days shivering with a fever and covered in a burning red sunburn while trying to lower my temperature which eventually got me a cold.
Perfect...
This doesn't seem plausible, except that I was there: get this: when I was ten.... 19 years ago, I could spend the whole summer with no shirt on and never bother my darker-than-usual caucasian complexion with the slightest pink.
We've also had three bang-crashing, hurly burly thunderstorms in the last week, incredibly unusual for this area. I guess we should start re-thinking using the terms "usual" and "unusual" to describe the weather.
Where's this all going...
Sometimes I wonder if the planet may clean and restore itself regardless of our best efforts to aid or prevent it. Maybe in the face of such a crisis our role will become less to prevent "disaster" through environmental action, a disaster which may be necessary, but instead to educate and encourage people on how to survive the "disaster".
Maybe we will await the earth's wrath and convulsive self-healing with joy, and hold on as best we can?
Imagine, networks of inustrial mass-production and polution splinter apart.... cities' populations are scattered, re-populating the vast tracts of industrial farming with a return to sustainable, clean, village economy. Individuals are forced to rediscover, by necessity, their vocational calling, and eke out positive existances doing simple things they love, and their former prisons, the gleaming towers of Babylon, collect seeweed and lichen under a newly formed sea.
Dangerous and Fun.
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How....How are we to avoid a coming disaster? Also, if Divine intervention is unlikely (and I agree with that) how will avoiding anything be any protection against the consequences of said disaster? Call me what you will, but all efforts to fight the tide seem hopeless at this point. What are the two of you doing in preparation? The Earl of Strange is adding yet another life form to the world, in hopes of greater chances of his magnificent genes being passed on...Cogn8 seems to want to record the dying moments of our civilization in order to preserve the history for our ancestors...me? I guess I´m building the fat cells around my midsection by imbibing large quantities of beer in hopes of floating to safety when the sea overtakes us. So, I guess we´re all doing our part. Awesome.
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