chicken too little too late

The sky is falling.  What?  You don’t believe me?  The problem with this sort of admonition is that they are often disproved… in the short term. The sky didn’t fall like you said it would.  Therefore, you’re wrong and we can continue on our merry way.  This failure to communicate is surely the result of the combined effects of an overzealous messenger and an undereducated populace.  Let’s choose a more concrete example.  The world is coming to an end.  It will meet its fiery death in a few billion years.  Most people with a passing understanding of cosmology would agree.  More pressingly, however, is the notion that life, as we know it, may cease to exist rather shortly, unless extreme measures are undertaken to forestall this impending calamity.  Sure, we will survive as a species.  But that is only due to our “race to the bottom” ethics we have imposed on our planet.  As we humans race to the bottom in terms of pay scale, workers’ rights, air and water quality, etc…, our competition (non-human life) suffers in untold multiples.  At some point, the narrow-minded “competition” race will end and the depletion of plant and animal “resources” will signal the end of our good fortune here on earth.  Monoclonal antibodies could not hope to save us from the monocultural hell we are hell-bent on creating.  Make no mistake, this is the beginning of the end.  More to come,

Yours, BombTime

 

PS – I hope I’m wrong.  But hope won’t save us.  Only action will.  Speech is action.  Speak out!