:: The Blurst of Times ::

:: 10.03.2004 ::

Nostra-Flex-us

I’m telling you people, we’re in over our heads. We’ve all been stirring this bucket of shit for way too long now, and it’s starting to splash. For a thousand years we have played the Mosaic role of users and abusers of the earth and its natural resources. We have wrecked a havoc in those thousand years that can only be matched by geologic processes over millennia. Now, it’s all coming back around. We see more hurricanes in six weeks than have ever battered the Southeast seaboard in that period before; earthquakes and volcanoes are threatening the other side of the continent, harmless as of yet, but proving to be increasing in magnitude; glaciers are sloughing off into the seas around the Antarctic, raising global sea levels, causing further climate shifts and temperature fluxes throughout the world.

Without wanting to sound too grim or laugh too wickedly (this is a family program, I’d like to keep the kids involved), I’ll say I wouldn’t be too surprised to see these natural disasters continue to escalate in the coming years with little decline. We are going to have to change the way we think about living in places like Florida, California, and the Coasts. No longer will we be able to say that preparing for the proverbial hundred year flood is enough - we must realize the hundred year flood is going to become the fifty or the twenty year flood and we’re going to have to reshape our processes for dealing with this situation.

“Some say a comet will fall from the sky, followed my meteor showers and tidal waves, followed by fault lines that cannot sit still, followed by millions of dumbfounded dipshits... One great big festering neon distraction, I’ve a suggestion to keep you all occupied: learn to swim...”

:: Freddy F. at 9:43 PM [+] ::

Comments:

Hey, thanks for bumming me out, asshole.

# posted by  RICK : 2:24 AM

 

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