One murky winter, morassed in a half failed experiment of sucking out bits of low income housing marrow; I uneasily drifted off to sleep until about 2 a.m... Somehow as it was becoming unusually warm, I dreamt that I was gulping down water -squeezing it from grainy 70 lb. sandbags. Suddenly I wobbled awake, realizing I’d left the stove on half the night to temper my wool blanket shivering.
The next day’s paper said in pieces that global warming was falling from the sky. How intriguing an idea, part of me dare said, “Global Warming –Bring it on!” Now Stanley will really become that destination resort some have been shooting for. Redfish Lake –colored no more by fish but by flame. The paper spouted like cold water, “How dare anybody question the scientifically funded facts!” Ten thousand experts shouted down one whispering “But what if the lone star pointing at the sun was right all along about natural ebb and flow of ice age come and go?”
Am I off my elliptical orbit to think about the larger picture, about what happens if the earth starts a funny wobble towards the tightening asteroid belt? It wouldn’t take much. If the Chinese army jumping jacks and jills simultaneously leapt up and down them thar hills we’d be up Snakes Creek with a paddled frown. Similarly if a comet hailed, by bopping us out another Crater Lake, it would spill everyone’s drink in an Isosceles Bellevue triangle extended betwixt Borah and Pickles Place.
I was reminded by this vision of an old Twilight episode. A lady dreamt that the earth was becoming too much of a Sun Valley. Water, water was not everywhere and drops to drink, were about out. After soothing her with some scrabbly lemonade, the futuristic subjects wondered if they should tell her the truth. In fact the earth had been glanced by a meteor and we were wobbling backwards toward a dead planet named Plutonium.
Many science fiction writers believe that mankind will ultimately survive even the suns extinguishing. In what form you may ask. Well we could start shaking up our technological bottles vibrating full of profiteering genies, and flip flop some research into healing ways.
What’s it going to take for nations leaders to get together and realize that we have no more time to waste? We need to start cooperating yesterday.
Ready break!
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