IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT

Reading the cover story in the May edition of The New Yorker entitled "How Hot Can It Get?" it struck me....we're all brainwashed. Nobody wants to believe the world's atomasphere has been affected by ....what I've chosen to call materialism. The fact that numerous first class scientists are coming out with study after study expressing the subtle early warning signs of a biosphere in transition and yet....the majority of the North American public A) Don't care B) Don't know C) Don't believe the science or D) Stay drunk enough to repress the truth.

We're truly what J.Ralston Saul calls the Unconscious Civilization. Although I believe he used the term more narrowly I am applying it to North America....hell even Europe....they too have numerous environmental issues...though North Americans seem to be slower to react to the crisis than anybody. With an oil company executive as the vice prez in the US, could things possibly become any more earth friendly? The world as we know it is drunk on oil....rather than developing alternative energies we've placed all our energy needs in the hands of two oil junkies....Dubya and Haliburton.

The article however is much less biased...it shows how super computer driven models have developed interesting results in climate study such as desertification and increased global temperatures....sound familiar? Don't worry sleepy head this won't happen in your lifetime.....however because the results of the gradual vs rapid evolution are inconclusive....I being the Murphy's Law advocate am saying without a doubt, we could be on the verge......

Give it another twenty years when China has fully industrialized and it's booming population become the materialists were are today ..... then my friend .....we'll see....please write me...then and now....apparently 500 of you have been through this writing experement in the past 3.5 months yet only a handful of you have chosen to respond :(

A short quote from the article reads..."What the record shows is that the planet is now nearly as warm as it has been at any point in the last four hundred and twenty thousand years. A possible concequence of a four- or five-degree temperature rise - on the low end of the projections for doubled CO2 - is that the world will enter a completely new climate regime, one which modern humans have no prior experience."