Thursday 31 October 2019

It's All Performance Art 4

The world is not about to end. It is not going to end any time soon. Are we threatened by climate change and environmental collapse? Yes. Is it all going to end in my lifetime, or even in yours, Gentle Reader? No. Are things going to be different? It's likely. Will there be less food to eat? Maybe. Will there be mass starvation? Probably. Rich countries are likely going to horde and monopolize food sources as things get scarcer. Will parts of the earth become uninhabitable because of heat, drought, flooding, rising sea levels and hurricanes? Yep. Are the greedy braindead in Alberta and in other big fat oil patches ever going to see the light? Nope. How are we going to survive all this? I don't know. But we will. But locally and internationally, we are going to have to learn how to coexist better. A lot better, or our future is certainly going to be in peril. Up for grabs. There could be a lot of deaths. There have always been deaths, and now that this planet is overpopulated with our our kind, we are more than ever likely to crowd the weaker and poorer out of existence. This is tragic, and it doesn't have to happen. I think more of us need to work harder at building community. Protesting is one thing, but we still have to shore up for a difficult future ahead of us, and I don't think that a lot of people are ready yet to do this. Until it's too late, and then our collective ass is really going to get kicked. No kumbaya for you, dearies. We might even tackle things in time and halt or at least slow the disaster. It ain't over yet. This is not Armageddon. The Apocalypse is not going to happen. Poor you.

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