- Here in Victoria, BC, Canada I follow the Gulf Oil Louisiana
Blow-out [GLOB] on our CBC, waiting for the lies to stop and the truth
to start, as it must, in spite of The Powers That Be [TPTB] who want it
all to go away. But it won't, not now, and not ever. The USSA, just as
did the USSR, is about to be undone. But not by an enemy outside the gates:
No, this is self-destruction at its highest and best.
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- The magnitude of this disaster is inevitably revealed
to our human world. And the ultimate truth is that we alone created our
destiny, and will continue so for a very long time, even one as fatal as
this one.
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- In spite of all the inane assurances uttered by TPTB
--as if giving voice to this immense wounding of the Creation could somehow
heal the fatalities so profitably inflicted on an entire planet!-- the
ultimate truth is that we alone made this insanity.
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- The fact is we're now face to face with the Three Laws
of Thermodynamics [TLT] in a special sense. Firstly, we've met a force
of Nature [i.e., the Creation], so much greater than us that it is no more
possible for us to control it as for us to control any one of the TLT.
I see this oily venting going on as long as it takes to come to equilibrium
in its depths, and there's nothing that mere humans can do. Real life isn't
a Hollywood sci-fi movie where we always triumph.
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- This is analogous to the massive meteor that induced
the world-wide weather shift that hastened the age of the dinosaurs.
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- So get ready to witness the end of Southern Louisiana,
the end of the seafood riches of the Gulf [already massively threatened
from fertiliser runoff and huge soil erosion], and God/dess only knows
how much coastline to be devastated.
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- Look: even if we believe and act as if humankind's influences
on weather and climate were something that we can slow, never mind reverse,
such pales in comparison to what planet Earth creates on its own. Have
we forgotten Krakatoa?
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- "On 27 August [1883] four enormous explosions
took place at 05:30, 06:44, 10:02, and 10:41 local time. The explosions
were so violent that they were heard 3,500 km (2,200 mi) away
in Perth, Western Australia and the Indian Ocean island of Rodrigues near
Mauritius, 4,800 km (3,000 mi) away, where they were thought
to be cannonfire from a nearby ship.[1]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1883_eruption_of_Krakatoa#cite_note-Symons88-1>[2]:22
Each was accompanied by very large tsunamis, which are believed to have
been over 30 meters (100 ft) high in places....
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- "The pressure wave generated by the colossal
final explosion radiated from Krakatoa at 1,086 km/h (675 mph).[3]
It was so powerful that it shattered the eardrums of sailors on ships in
the Sunda Strait[4].... The pressure wave radiated across the globe and
was recorded on barographs all over the world, which continued to register
it up to 5 days after the explosion. Barograph recordings show that
the shockwave from the final explosion reverberated around the globe 7
times in total.[2] Ash was propelled to a height of 80 km (50 mi)."
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- The ash clouds circled the planet for three years and
caused food crop failures world-wide, from lack of adequate light or heat.
It is estimated that hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of humans
starved to death. To the best of my knowledge, no one's estimated the wildlife
casualties.
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- "In the year following the eruption, average
global temperatures fell by as much as 1.2 °C (2.2 °F).
Weather patterns continued to be chaotic for years, and temperatures did
not return to normal until 1888. The eruption injected an unusually large
amount of sulfur dioxide (SO2) gas high into the stratosphere which was
subsequently transported by high-level winds all over the planet. This
led to a global increase in sulfurous acid (H2SO3) concentration in high-level
cirrus clouds. The resulting increase in cloud reflectivity (or albedo)
would reflect more incoming light from the sun than usual, and cool the
entire planet until the suspended sulfur fell to the ground as acid precipitation.[10]
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- [Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1883_eruption_of_Krakatoa]
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- So we've already experienced a nuclear Winter, although
no one living can recall it. But it's only history, which we rarely learn
from, even in life and death matters. Yet we have hope that the Obamamama
can do something.... Well, if not him, then all our techniques and technology
surely will -- won't they?
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- Our poets are better prophets than our scientists, in
that they give us the meaning of our place in the Kosmos. Supreme among
them is Robinson Jeffers, who for me is the greatest US poet. Here's what
he wrote:
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- "... I will have no lawyers nor constables
- Each man guard his own goods: there will be manslaughter,
- But no more wars, no more mass-sacrifice. Nor I'll
have no doctors,
- Except old women gathering herbs on the mountain,
- Let each have her sack of opium to ease the death-pains.
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- That would be a good world, free and out-doors.
- But the vast hungry spirit of the time
- Cries to his chosen that there is nothing good
- Except discovery, experiment and experience and discovery....
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- Science and mathematics
- Run parallel to reality, they symbolize it, they
squint at it,
- They never touch it: consider what an explosion
- Would rock the bones of men into little white
fragments
- and unsky the world
- If any mind for a moment touch truth."
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- from 'The Silent Shepherds'
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- So, are ya ready for the next Big Thing: the end of the
USSA as we have known it?
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- I didn't think it would be in my lifetime, but hey! It's
coming, and praise God, we can move on to right living and a right end!
Just imagine....
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