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Has the Age of Chaos Begun?
All of this, of course, is a perverse tribute to industrial capitalism and extractive imperialism as geological forces so formidable that they have succeeded in scarcely more than two centuries -- indeed, mainly in the last fifty years -- in knocking the earth off its climatic pedestal and propelling it toward the nonlinear unknown.
The demon in me wants to say: Party and make merry. No need now to worry about Kyoto, recycling your aluminum cans, or using too much toilet paper, when, soon enough, we'll be debating how many hunter-gathers can survive in the scorching deserts of New England or the tropical forests of the Yukon.
(Via Boing Boing.)
2 comments:
Learn, improve, adapt, overcome. Isnt that at the heart of the post-human idea? Technology advances faster when there is the greatest need. It is true during wartime and it will be true should dramatic climate shifts come about.
In the meantime Im looking into buying land in the Yukon, for growing oranges.
Thanks so much for the post, really effective data.
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