photo of Earth: NASA/Apollo 17 crew |
It’s probably occurring to some people that mankind is
headed into the equivalent of another ice age. Supposedly the ice age that
abolished many forms of life including dinosaurs was the result of a meteor
hitting earth. Now we have torrential hurricanes aided and abetted by warming
waters, earthquakes and finally devastating fires destroying communities in Northern California.
It’s hard to figure out the chain of causality, but if global warming is
causing these environmental disasters then in a domino effect the disasters
themselves, like the ones in California that wipe out forests, only further the
insult to nature. How much can the earth withstand? Drought itself like the ones stoking the recent fires can actually affect the axis on which the planet turns."Scientists Just Figured Out What's Causing the Earth to Wobble," CNBC, 4/9/16) Trump has indicated he's increasing the inventory of lethal nuclear weapons as if the 4000 or so the US
presently has weren’t enough and he’s also threatening to deal with North Korea
by eradicating the country. "Trump Wanted Ten Fold Increase in Nuclear Arsenal Surprising Military," ran an NBC
story that created it’s own waves, “Trump Threatens NBC Over Nuclear Weapons Report," NYT, 10/11/17). It’s Greek chorus time
since in a kind of antiphonal effect the cosmos seems to be responding. You
don’t have to believe in anything to see that at the very least the system is
becoming like an electrical circuit that’s heating up and heading for a short.
The earth has never seemed more fragile than in our current meteorological
crises and at what point will the troop and FEMA deployments simply not be
adequate to handle all of the meltdowns, not to mention the prospect of
limited or even all out war arising in the European, Middle Eastern and Asian
theaters?
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