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ljgeoffI'm working on an essay for a class that I've got this semester - Narrative and Descriptive Writing; Nature.
I just ordered James Lovelock's "The Revenge of Gaia", after reading one of his essays. Scary stuff. Lovelock thinks that humans might survive, but doesn't have much hope for our civilization.
"It's going too fast," he says softly. "We will burn."
"There's no realization of how quickly and irreversibly the planet is changing," Lovelock says. "Maybe 200 million people will migrate close to the Arctic and survive this. Even if we took extraordinary steps, it would take the world 1,000 years to recover."
Alot of people think Lovelock is cracked. He's a huge proponent of nuclear power, and the Greens hate that. He's pretty much saying that nothing we are doing will help. People hate that, too.
If there is one thing that I am good at, it is at seeing patterns. I ... hm, don't know how to explain this - patterns leap out at me. Reading Lovelock is like a deja vu experience, or like having someone else tell me about a dream that I had.
Something else about me - I have a personal motto (I got it for my SCA persona, but it's more than that): Ivestigo Viam I find a way.
Last Sunday, the boys and I, my boys, sat up late talking about it. "Pretend it's an RPG," I suggested. "What will you need to survive? What would the stronghold look like? What would the rules be?" We set a goal of obtaining the property by 2020.
Mike doesn't buy any of it - well, he concedes that it'll get a few degrees warmer, but he thinks we're north enough. I told the boys - "well, if I'm wrong, we'll have a pretty piece of property in northern Canada."
I just ordered James Lovelock's "The Revenge of Gaia", after reading one of his essays. Scary stuff. Lovelock thinks that humans might survive, but doesn't have much hope for our civilization.
"It's going too fast," he says softly. "We will burn."
"There's no realization of how quickly and irreversibly the planet is changing," Lovelock says. "Maybe 200 million people will migrate close to the Arctic and survive this. Even if we took extraordinary steps, it would take the world 1,000 years to recover."
Alot of people think Lovelock is cracked. He's a huge proponent of nuclear power, and the Greens hate that. He's pretty much saying that nothing we are doing will help. People hate that, too.
If there is one thing that I am good at, it is at seeing patterns. I ... hm, don't know how to explain this - patterns leap out at me. Reading Lovelock is like a deja vu experience, or like having someone else tell me about a dream that I had.
Something else about me - I have a personal motto (I got it for my SCA persona, but it's more than that): Ivestigo Viam I find a way.
Last Sunday, the boys and I, my boys, sat up late talking about it. "Pretend it's an RPG," I suggested. "What will you need to survive? What would the stronghold look like? What would the rules be?" We set a goal of obtaining the property by 2020.
Mike doesn't buy any of it - well, he concedes that it'll get a few degrees warmer, but he thinks we're north enough. I told the boys - "well, if I'm wrong, we'll have a pretty piece of property in northern Canada."