The End Times

This is only the third day of my blog experience, but I'm already having to consider if this is it, the end of days. Yet another earthquake happened, this time in Japan. That makes 3 earthquakes, one volcano eruption, 12 hurricanes, 9 severe storms, 1 lanslide, and 1 major tsunami all in less than a half a year. And those are just the ones that made news....

So we've got to consider that something is sending us a message: whether you're God-fearing, God-loving, IntelligentDesign-oriented, or simply you believe that the earth is attempting to reject a virus-namely, civilization, something has got to be going on.

Alright, but maybe this is just good-old home-grown climate change occuring in part and strengthening because of civilization's gross misunderstanding of nature. This is unfortunately not going to get better in the near term. Catastrophes like these will indeed get more common, and so our ability to adapt will come into question. For us in the US we'll feel the consequences least (though we'll have been responsibile for most of the problem). Of course, Katrina was in a way a reminder that we're no nation is immune, but I'm afraid it still left many with the feeling that they weren't vulnerable. How many of the white, middle-class in the US could identify with our poor countrymen of color drowning in the Ninth District?

But the climate change will touch us, whether directly, or indirectly with the refugees who have no where else to go. And when it happens that martial law is declared, when the artic melts and it will, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology can't construct the levees high enough to keep away the rising tide, when the offshore tax havens like the Cayman Islands are inundated and the precarious precipice that the global economy rests on falls into the ocean, what is going to be our response? Are we going to be vigilantes or are we going to start asking hard questions. The questions that you think after you leave a really good movie, or finish a really good book. Those are the ones we need to share with other people.

Here's to the human race!
Always have hope.