01-10-2020, 08:26 AM
I live is rural, gun toting, Trump loving Michigan. At the store the other day, I heard a farmer who lives up the road from me complaining that climate change had just put his brother's cottage in Lake Michigan, because the 3 foot rise in lake level had eroded about 50 feet of beach in the past year. I kept my mouth shut because nobody likes to here "I told you so" In Miami it's becoming common for the sidewalks to get wet after the high tide: the water coming up from the ground. Salt water that is. My Aussie gaming friends haven't messaged in a couple weeks. Go figure.
Humankind seems to always wait until it's fifty eight minutes past eleven before getting its act together. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsA3PK8bQd8
People will continue to parse the facts and argue about syntax until the world comes down on their heads. It's just the way we do things.
I remain an optimist. In some ways I see it as a required cleansing. We have the ability to fix our situation in a matter of a decade, and we will, after much pain and suffering including the disappearance of entire nations, mass dislocations, famine and war. It will require much pain and suffering, but we'll get it together.
I look at S&H's work and recognize that, it speaks about a people, in a nation in a time gone by. The "givens" of their world view are soon to change. The very idea of nation state is becoming a blurry concept. Unrest, and fracture are the standard now, as opposed to the exception. I still find S&H a valuable tool, but I find myself wondering if they even considered an acceleration in the climate crisis of this magnitude. I doubt it.
Humankind seems to always wait until it's fifty eight minutes past eleven before getting its act together. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsA3PK8bQd8
People will continue to parse the facts and argue about syntax until the world comes down on their heads. It's just the way we do things.
I remain an optimist. In some ways I see it as a required cleansing. We have the ability to fix our situation in a matter of a decade, and we will, after much pain and suffering including the disappearance of entire nations, mass dislocations, famine and war. It will require much pain and suffering, but we'll get it together.
I look at S&H's work and recognize that, it speaks about a people, in a nation in a time gone by. The "givens" of their world view are soon to change. The very idea of nation state is becoming a blurry concept. Unrest, and fracture are the standard now, as opposed to the exception. I still find S&H a valuable tool, but I find myself wondering if they even considered an acceleration in the climate crisis of this magnitude. I doubt it.
There was never any good old days
They are today, they are tomorrow
It's a stupid thing we say
Cursing tomorrow with sorrow
-- Eugene Hutz
They are today, they are tomorrow
It's a stupid thing we say
Cursing tomorrow with sorrow
-- Eugene Hutz