Yep, the
glaciers are retreating,
Global warming and all that. The part that I find amusingly
ironic is the rarely considered alternative to retreat, advance.
A lot of good
research material suggests that the earth should be in the entrance stages to another
ice age, and that the only thing preventing this is the global warming created by
industrial emissions.
I will be the first to agree that pollution and the
greenhouse effect is bad, but let's consider the alternative for a moment. How conveinent would it be to have a mile thick sheet of glacial ice slowly moving south through
Canada and into
Wyoming?
Unfortunately, the way we're going isn't really any better. Even if we were able to convince a quarter of a billion
Americans to stop driving their
automobiles, the problem wouldn't be half solved. Rampant disregard for environmental controls in emerging
industrialized countries eager to suckle from the wealthy teat of profit hungry
American corporations would easily cause the same problem on their own.
So where does that leave us? Too much
pollution and the coasts may rise by 30 feet or more. Too little pollution and we run the chance of kick starting aother Ice Age.
Balance is important in any dealing with nature, but I believe she dislike
stasis as much as a
void.
Maybe
Snake Plissken had the right idea after all.