>>> Frank Masingill on Reflections on modernity 
 
 WE> Green house.  The polar ice cap is poised to slip into the ocean.
 WE> Warming trends, dry out forests, causing uncontrolled fires to rage
 WE> unabated for long periods of time, in addition to the usual burning of
 WE> forests.  So green house drying in accelerating release of CO2.
 WE> Additionally, there is little hope of thwarting the logging companies
 WE> greed.  They are just too politically strong, even here in the US. Green
 WE> house excesses will continue to acerbate erratic weather.  This year of
 WE> storms and floods is part of the battering that we are creating for
 WE> ourselves.
 FM> Sounds QUITE reminiscent of the prophet Amos in one of the biblical
 FM> writings.  He saw the way the wealthy people treated the poor and
 FM> warned them that they ought to "let justice roll down like waters."  
My prognostications have nothing to do with justice.  The poor will suffer 
more than the rich, who will afford necessities in ever shorter supply.  
Forgot to add oil depletion crises.  At current rates of consumption, even 
before 2100 none will be left.  Maybe solar car by then, that's looking 
hopeful.  But solar jets, forget it.  Nobody's concerned about jet fuel 
consumption which must be comparable to car usage.  So fly less to cut down 
on CO2 production.
 FM> George Carlin continues to be my remedy for all prognostications of
 FM> cosmic disaster.  The earth MIGHT just be emitting a bored "ho hum"
 FM> long after we have prophesied the demise by first anthropomorphizing
 FM> everything and then deciding that when modern man is gone all reality
 FM> will be lost.  
The guy's a genius showing afterwards how to get rid of the mess we made. -)
 FM> We still don't know WHY the dinosaurs disappeared but we
 FM> couldn't guarantee them that they actually (chuckle) MISSED a whole lot.
After them came the mastodons who were driven into extinction by cave 
dwelling hunters, so they didn't miss much, now did they? -)
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