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Ninety Million Dead!

 
 
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09:20 / 18.02.02
That’s the media touted death toll anyway of monarch butterflies that have recently died in Mexico. People are blaming a cold snap coupled with the results of logging on the deaths.

Aside from the tragedy of loosing millions and millions of these wonderful, beautiful creatures, I wonder what sort of “butterfly” effect this is going to have on ecosystems from Mexico to Canada? Also, if one butterfly fluttering its wings can, down the road, alter the course of the weather, then what is 90, 000, 000 butterflies who can flutter their wings no longer going to do to weather patterns overall?

Why is it that the news is mostly bad, and that it does feel as if we’re caught in the middle of a slow motion apocalypse?



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[ 18-02-2002: Message edited by: modthree ]
 
 
Burning Man
15:46 / 18.02.02
That is a very good question! What will happen to the ecosystem?


I do agree with you about the slow motion apocalypse. Each time I hear a dispatch out of D.C. I think we are taking another step.

Rant Warning!
No wonder someone freaks out and goes on a shooting rampage. It seems like we are each under more and more pressure of an invisible sociological nature. I feel it (not the shooting part) right at this moment, when I hear Cream's "I feel free" coming from the radio in the next room and I think about a car commerical. I think about the pressure to be patriotic, the pressure to toe the line, and only release that pressure in a conformed manner using only legalized drugs (like alcohol which does more damage than any other drug around).

All of it, from the butterflies dying on up the food chain to the rampant racial/sexual tensions that still exist in the US workplace, is part of a large systematic degredation of, well, practically everything. Why? Ask the guys with the opposable thumbs.

If we as a species stopped thinking that we are Lords of the Earth, and that we can run roughshod over everything in our path-and instead lived in Harmony with nature. Perhaps we'd be able to find it within us to become individual, immortal, benevolent Gods.

Rant End
 
  
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