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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPhil Rockstroh: Lost in an Anthropocene Wonderland
from Consortium News:
Lost in an Anthropocene Wonderland
December 20, 2013
The Anthropocene Epoch dating from when human activity began to have a significant impact on the global ecosystem is crashing toward a disastrous end amid melting icecaps, rising sea levels and dying species, but the human race cant stop its rush to ecocide, as poet Phil Rockstroh observes.
By Phil Rockstroh
According to a recent, exhaustive study commissioned by the U.S. Department of Energy and headed by a scientific team from the U.S. Navy, by the summer of 2015, the Arctic Ocean could be bereft of ice, a phenomenon that will engender devastating consequences for the earths environment and every living creature on the planet.
Yet, recently, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said (in defiance of common sense and even a modicum of sanity) that the U.S. military will escalate its presence in the Arctic, due to the fact that (the) potential for tapping what may be as much as a quarter of the planets undiscovered oil and gas.
Secretary of Defense? More like Commissar of Mass Suicide. This situation is like a family of self-destructive drunks inheriting a brewery. Sans hyperbole, it is exactly like making the choice to exist as fatally self-involved consumers as opposed to multidimensional human beings possessed of heart, mind and soul.
I mean, just what kind of suicidal clowns flounce through life gibbering on about bacon straws, cupcakes, online images of kitty cats, and the latest Playstation model when the specter of extinction looms and their psychotic leaders are doubling down on the criteria of doom? This is like giving Charles Manson the codes to nuclear missile silos. ...................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://consortiumnews.com/2013/12/20/lost-in-an-anthropocene-wonderland/
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Phil Rockstroh: Lost in an Anthropocene Wonderland (Original Post)
marmar
Dec 2013
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riversedge
(70,206 posts)1. Defense wants jet fuel for their warplanes. Simple as that.
gordianot
(15,237 posts)2. When their Grandchildren are dieing and no future generations are possible it will be noticed.
Many humans live in the moment fearing a fictional Apocalypse when the truth can be easily ignored by those hard pressed to locate the arctic on a globe.