The End of the World as we know it, but I Feel Passable, pt 2

Ma Nature Delivers a Bitch-slap

Next we have natural disasters. Yes the globe is heating up, yes it is our fault and no, no one is making a substantive effort to stop the process. There are some examples of attempts to mitigate the problem. Please, if you are interested in this, read “The Weather Makers” by Tim Flannery, or “Field Notes from a Catastrophe” by Elizabeth Kolbert. They are only slightly longer then this post. Ignorance is not bliss. Folks my age may see the beginnings of the trouble brewing from wantonly tossing CO2 into the atmosphere, but it is our kids that are screwed. If the present estimates are close, the earth will be a lifeless molten ball of rock by 2070.

The Discovery Channel loves this stuff, probably because people can’t get enough of disaster shows – I am one of them, I can (and do) quote “Twister” word for word, much to my daughter’s delight. According to programming on the Discovery Channel we will be wiped out by mega-asteroids, mega-glaciers, mega-tsunamis, or mega-volcanoes – and we are “long overdue" for each one of these cataclysmic events. I wonder what would happen to the stock market if the Yellowstone super-volcano erupted at the same moment one of our larger celestial visitors came calling? Crap.

It may or may not be the end. I felt I ought to go out an but the 52” plasma TV so at least I could watch the end in living color. Hey if it is the end of the world, Visa is shit out of luck trying to get their money back for that TV. Unfortunately Ms. Phos (AKA Mommy No-fun) put the kibosh on that plan. Marriage is kind of world-ender in its own right, I guess. Anyway, no worries, go on about your business, and don’t worry about your children and their children cursing you for screwing it up.