Heat waves always bring to mind end-times scenarios for me. You know, like the heat never ends and everything gets brown and dries up and the reservoirs turn to bone before anyone realizes what’s happening and we all end up cooking in the urban ovens we are living in. It’s always too late before we [...]
Yesterday Salon magazine ran a piece by Mike Davis about the end of the Holocene and how this abrupt departure from the climate stability we’ve known for the past 10-11,000 years means that global agriculture is doomed and the planet is going to start starving to death in the next hundred years or so. [...]
I note here that the Doomsday seed vault built by the Norwegians in the Arctic has received its first shipment of seeds for storage. I am not sure whether that news should provide comfort or not. In me, it really just leaves a chill, a slight horror. Have we really come to this point where [...]
i stayed in town last night, went to a physio appointment after work, went for dinner with a union friend and then to firetrap’s place where i hung out with her and the two roomates – talking *late* into the evening. the general theme being the ongoing decline of western civilization and imminent ecological or [...]
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one of the things that has alway stuck with me since i was a teenager was after the downfall of ceausescu in romania (1989) when the common romanian people were allowed to go through his houses for a tour to see what kind of lifestyle he was living while they scraped by in poverty. i [...]
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