Walking in an Anthropocene Wonderland

[unhappycamper]

http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/phil-rockstroh/53292/walking-in-an-anthropocene-wonderland

Walking in an Anthropocene Wonderland
by Phil Rockstroh | December 21, 2013 - 12:05pm

According to a recent, exhaustive study commissioned by the US 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 earth's environment and every living creature on the planet.

Yet, recently, Chuck Hagel, US Defense Secretary, said (in defiance of common sense and even a modicum of sanity) that the US 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 planet’s 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.

[newfie11]

1. Your last sentence tells it all. Nt