Climate eschatology
It’s not just hydrogen bombs pushing us closer to oblivion, it’s climate change and the threat of ecological collapse. Researchers now estimate the likelihood of human extinction by 2100 at 9.5%.
(with apologies to George and Ira Gershwin)
The more I read the papers, the less I comprehend.
The world and all it's capers and how it soon will end.
Nothing seems to be lasting, but that isn't our affair.
We've got something permanent,
I mean how we don't care.
It's very clear we are not here to stay
Another year. . .maybe we go away
The internet and the airplane,
the technologies we love so,
destroy the planet. . .time for us to go.
Oh no, my dear, we are not here to stay.
Pack up your gear, prepare to pass away.
As we stumble and bumble the climate will crumble.
Despite what the Panglosses say,
we are not here to stay.
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OR, keeping it simple:
THIS is the way the world ends,
this IS the way the world ends,
this is THE WAY the world ends. . .
not with a bang but a wimple?
(Pace T. S. Eliot)
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