{"id":631,"date":"2006-01-30T15:12:04","date_gmt":"2006-01-30T15:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=631"},"modified":"2006-01-30T15:12:04","modified_gmt":"2006-01-30T15:12:04","slug":"bring-on-the-apocolypse-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/30\/bring-on-the-apocolypse-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"BRING ON THE APOCOLYPSE, BABY!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was just reading more damning evidence that we’re on the highway to climate
\nhell<\/a>. Predictably my blood started to boil.<\/p>\n

It really is the beginning of the end. By all scientific accounts,
\nthe polar ice caps will be gone within the next hundred or so years.
\nTemperatures will have risen several degrees in the same time. With all that
\nextra water the oceans are predicted to rise up to 20 feet (depending on the
\narticle you read). This will dramatically reduce our landmasses, further
\ncrowding us inland. Add on top of this that a lot of the remaining land will
\nbe uninhabitable due to the risen heat and the constant scouring by never
\nbefore seen titanic storms, hurricanes and tornadoes. A lot of already
\nover-crowded countries won’t have enough room for their people. This
\nwill initiate countless wars of “national survival”, which will actually be good
\nnews because it will eliminate much of the overcrowding through war related
\nfatalities. But, then, wham! Hey! Where did all our fresh water go??? You
\nmean it doesn’t magically appear from some mystical fountain? Nope. Sorry
\n’bout your luck. 77% of surface freshwater is stored as ice and 22% as
\ngroundwater and soil moisture. The remaining freshwater, making up less than
\n1% of the world total, is contained in lakes, rivers and wetlands. And what
\ndo you think replenishes those lakes, rivers, underground aquifers that we
\nrely on so? Yep, ice cap runoff. Oh, rain does it too thankfully. Oh, but
\nwe’ve f**ked that up too with acid rain. So we just melted our major source
\nof fresh water which is now nicely salinated in the oceans and are, ever so
\nbusily, poisoning the rest. So, as the rivers, lakes and aquifers deplete, the
\ntoxic chemicals will further concentrate. Unlike water, which can go away and
\nnot come back, the chemicals tend to want to overstay their welcome. Where do
\nyou think that leaves the land? Poisoned. Infertile. Dead.<\/p>\n

So, after thinking about the previous scenario, I’m starting to change
\nmy mind about the whole stopping green-house gas issue. Maybe I’ve
\nbeen looking at this the wrong way. Maybe, I’m going to start siding with the
\noil companies and maybe our next vehicle will be a big, square, cast iron
\nvehicle that has to haul around a trailer with an extra enormous fuel tank
\nbecause it gets 0.2 km\/litre. Better yet, lets lobby the auto industry to develop
\na vehicle that runs directly on a gelatinous slurry of local pur\u00c3\u00a9ed flora and
\nfauna. Yeah, that’s the ticket.<\/p>\n

The way I’m starting to see it is thus: We’re never going to clean our act up
\nenough to save ourselves. It’s just too late for that. Humans as a whole
\nhave been too cursed with a deadly mixture of intelligence, a supreme lack of
\nwisdom\/foresight, and an unhealthy dose of complacency to set this all right.
\nThis couldn’t be more apparent in our leaders. The world is ruled by a
\nbunch of retards who couldn’t pull their collective heads out of their collective
\nasses long enough to be aware of the world they’re supposedly responsible for.
\nThat and they all, 100% of them, care for only one thing: the economy.
\nHow much mental effort does it take to come up with the simple logic that
\nwithout a world in which to live, money doesn’t really do anyone any
\ngood. But, you might as well tell people the oceans are red. Oh, wait!
\nThey ARE (red tide)! Or that the skies are green.ummm, yep, it more and more
\nlooks pretty greeny\/grey with P.A.N.’s (Peroxy Acetyl Nitrates) which are just
\none element of the chemical stew we vomit into the atmosphere on a daily basis.<\/p>\n

And don’t get me started on illness. Where do you think most of our illnesses come
\nfrom? Alot of it, maybe MOST of it is self inflicted. That’s why I only, ONLY donate
\nto environmental charities. Lets fix the cause of the problem not put a bandaid on it.<\/p>\n

Yep, I’ve concluded that we’re a species that was not meant to survive long in
\nthe evolutionary scheme of things. We’re inherently murderous, rapacious and
\negocentrically driven to exploit every natural resources purely for profit and without
\nany thought to consequence. The ubiquitous comparisons between humans
\nand cancer or viruses are extremely apt. We move into an area, use every
\nresource available until there’s nothing left and then move on to the next area.
\nIn fact, there is little we do as humans that doesn’t involve destroying something. <\/p>\n

With that in mind, I’ve pretty much decided to be anti-environmental. The sooner our
\nspecies is wiped off the face of the planet, or at least wiped out to the
\npoint where we can’t hurt anything anymore, the better. Our tenure on earth
\nhas been one unmitigated natural disaster since we started. We’ve ravaged,
\nraped or murdered almost everything there is that’s beautiful on the planet. I think
\nwe’ve proven ourselves time and again manifestly unworthy to hold the top
\nseat on earth. Lets just get it over with. I’m sure with us gone, the environment will
\nrecover fully in time. Maybe if we kill ourselves quickly enough some other
\nwiser, more intelligent life form will take over with better success…maybe
\nthe dolphins will get it right.<\/p>\n

Happy Armageddon, everyone!<\/p>\n

P.S. I’m, of course, just kidding about becoming anti-environmental. I’m
\njust gonna become more rabid about it, and less humanitarian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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