If only they had known
The human race is in the position the dinosaur race was in some 25 years before the impact of the Chicxulub meteor.
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climate change
Raindrops keep failing
I weep bitter tears when drought breaking rain is forecast and I get just a little bit less than bugger all
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World view
There is a real world described by science; and then there are many imaginary worlds, described by religion, and politics, and astrology, and the media, and psychics, and economists, and ideology, and common sense.
Value of nothing
Politicians and journalists always demand to know, and then reject, the cost of measures to conserve the environment. But neither ever ask the cost of war.
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends, with the bang of a million trees exploding, with the whimper of a thousand koalas dying, and unbreathable smoke, and blowing dust, and drying earth, and drying rivers, and a howling wind, and a bloody Sun, and a feeling of utter helplessness.
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Destroying the village.
Whodathought? (Not me). That the same people who damaged the world by flooding it with carbon dioxide, now say they can solve the problem by flooding it with radioactivity?
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Eyes wide closed
Having an online map of bushfires in this state, constantly updated, is good because it keeps you informed about what is burning. It is bad because it keeps you informed about what is burning.
The drumbeat of hooves
Every morning I awake wondering if this is the day a million red horses of the apocalypse will come galloping over the western hills.
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Wasn’t me
When did we decide, as a species, that this planet should be run by Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, Jeff Bezos, Larry Page, and a former Reality T.V host?