"Half Empty" Kind of Post

Run and Hide

I am reading an interesting book on global warming and its effects entitled the “Weather Makers.” Aside from the implications of the book itself, I started wondering how people could ignore the signs. I understand the politicians, driven by greed would ignore the signs, any action to stem the problem (though it may already be too late) would be money out of their pocket and that is not going to happen. Most ordinary people ignore it because it is an inconvenient and unpleasant topic, they tend to use the tried and true “head in the sand” approach.

I know of several people who have constructed their own happy place and live there on a permanent basis. This is fine, but it dulls them to the realities of the world around them. Typical amongst young children the “it can’t hurt me if I can’t see it” approach is a dangerous way to go through life, leaving one ill prepared when disaster strikes. The happy place people are in for a jarring experience when the happy place bubble bursts and they find themselves out on the cold, hard sidewalk, or in our case the hot, hard sidewalk.

Climactic change is the least of their immediate problems. Over population in the desert, failing housing markets, inflation, and rising crime rates are a few of the forces at work in our (and many other) areas and are beginning to have more impact on life. These factors will be the pins that pop the happy bubble. While the sky is not falling, yet, it is time to keep alert and anticipate changes for the worse, and take some pre-emptive measures. Arming oneself with knowledge as well as deterrents that are more physical in nature is becoming a necessity. Law enforcement and the political system are no longer protection from “bad things” and as the population in cities expand placing more pressure on already scarce resources as well as stretching police forces even thinner violence will spiral out of control.

Bottom line, wake up and smell the feces before you are ears deep in the stuff.