APOCALYPSE YESTERDAY
Why won’t we do anything about the climate crisis?
We are looking at the end of all our dreams, destinies, and aspirations. All our art, architecture, statues, paintings, writings, musics. The end of our families, our grandchildren, our friends, and neighbors.
How many years will it take for humans to be erased after a climate disaster wipes us out?
Geologists would say 1 million years. Maybe a little longer. But even 10 million years is a snap of the fingers in geological time.
10 million years should see all remnants of human occupation turned to dust, crushed far below the surface of the planet.
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids. John Steinbeck, East of Eden
We live with this every day of course, a vulnerable planet hurtling unprotected through the universe at 22,000 mph. But it’s what we are doing to ourselves that is most disturbing.
Our wilingness to gamble with our water, our air. It’s almost like we’re begging for our world to be a Mad Max movie. It can drive you crazy when you look around and realize that to a large number of humans, that looks like fun.
No taxes!
