A scene from Lucy Walker’s documentary, “Bring Your Own Brigade.” – CBS News
The Big Picture –
By Glynn Wilson –
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Some say the world will end in fire.
Maybe they are right.
Whether you cling to Biblical prophesy or believe the science of global warming and climate change, much of the world does seem to be on fire these days, and it seems to be getting hotter by the day.
Don’t just believe me.
“Fllames light up hillsides in British Columbia. Smoke swells over highways into Athens. A swimming pool in California is surrounded by charred rubble. Thick forests in Siberia lie shriveled and brown,” according to Time magazine.
“Countries across the northern hemisphere this summer are experiencing the worst wildfires in years of recorded history, with large swaths of land and entire towns in Europe, North America and Russia consumed by flames since the start of July. Though many of these countries are used to summer fire seasons, climate change is making the hot, dry conditions that allow fires to catch and spread more common and more intense. In parts of the western U.S., a summer of intense heat waves has arrived on the back of a weak rainy season, as a two-year-long drought stretches on. In mid-July, fires broke out in parts of Oregon and California, together consuming more than 230,000 hectares, part of a nationwide toll of over 1 million hectares burned so far in wildfires this year.”
On top of that, we thought we had turned the corner and moved past the worst of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, but low and behold, the Delta variant is spreading fast again, making millions of people sick, filling up hospital beds and killing people again.
Oh, the hubris of man, thinking we can control Mother Nature.
I’m guilty too, publishing the wishful thinking back in May that smart, vaccinated people could dance to live music again without wearing masks.
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It was nothing more than a spring-summer break, which we all needed. But here we are again, and it appears the hellscape year of 2020 will continue through 2021 and beyond.
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Lucy Walker has just released a documentary on the wildfires in California, and she quotes victims saying the world will end in an apocalypse of fire.
The New York Times published a review if you are interested in learning more.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump has $100 million in the bank and is planning a political comeback in 2024. Will he recover from the head wound of defeat in 2020 and take over the country again? Will this anti-Christ make a successful political comeback?
Jesus fucking Christ say it ain’t so.
People must get smarter and fast, or we are freaking doomed.
Come on people. Wake up and smell the wildfires and stop screwing up the planet.
Get the vaccine, wear the mask, stop spreading the virus.
Do you just not care enough about yourself and your children to act in your own self defense?
No gun and no prayer is going to save you from these existential threats.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but that’s the way I see it on this August day in the Year of our Lord 2021.
I’m hiding out in the mountains of the Mid-Atlantic region watching the latest Apocalypse Now on Facebook Live. My carbon footprint is about as low as any individual can make it. There is nothing more I can do but tell the story and issue the warning.
If you are watching it all on cable television news in a big, air conditioned house, driving a gas guzzling SUV, and voting Republican, you are part of the problem, not the solution.
When this Earthly Judgement Day comes for you, you will find out there is no savior from outer space to rescue you.
Only you can save yourself and the rest of us.
Wake up.
Get smart.
Do the right thing.
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If you read the conservative “Philadelphia Trumpet” you are strongly advised that “only God controls climate” and any effort we put forth = a total denial of “god’s” power and plan and will result in eternal damnation. This is not religion it is sheer stupidity and ignorance. The Lord’s Prayer clearly states God’s will be established on EARTH as in Heaven-so, we have much work to do and it ironically includes combating so called “Christian” misinformation!