We are so fucked.

So, here's this today. The link is to Zandar vs. the Stupid, but it's making the rounds. Anyway, scientists now say that the average world temperature will raise by 6.3 degrees by the end of the century, and the current proposals, even the most progressive proposals, are not Nearly enough to stop it.

So, this sort of ties into my whole view of the environmental movement in general. Good luck, godspeed, we're fucked. I don't mean to belittle, and I respect the people out there trying desperately to change the tide. But seriously, we are just fucked. The human race is just not attuned to this sort of thing. If it is a choice between convenience today vs. assurance for tomorrow, we will pick today every time. Of course the human race will not die out, that's ridiculous, we are too resourceful. But decimation is hardly out of the question. In fact, reverse decimation. Decimation is killing off a tenth, I think ninety percent is more the ticket. Good season for undertakers.

Watching the G-20, or whatever, address this is just the darkest of comedy. It's the equivalent of watching a mime stand in front of an Amtrak Express bullet on the rails at a local stop with his hands out. I hope I'm wrong, but I doubt I am. Our only hope is for another Ice Age, which could maybe help us balance out our global warming tendencies with a good Arctic blast and a glacier or two.

Of course, on the opposite side of this are the Conservatives saying that since we're all fucked anyway, why do we have to go through this whole effort. Now, of course, they do not have the courage of their convictions. They don't believe in Global Warming to begin with, so to say that it's no big deal is no big deal to them. It'd be exactly the same as if I were to laugh off alien invasion or, better, the Rapture, since I know it's not going to happen, what do I care. But, in their idiocy, they do have a point, but it's because of people like them that it's futile. Perhaps, maybe, if everyone, not Americans, all fucking 7-billion of us, became a bicycle-riding, recycling, environmentally-conscious hippie overnight we might, MIGHT, have a chance. But as a species, we're still arguing over whether Mohammed or Jesus had better magic powers, so fucking forget that.

Anyway, this is probably the penultimate generation of the human race as undisputed heavy-weight champs of the Planet Earth. So, I say, Enjoy it. Kick back, turn on the AC and have a drink. You deserve it. It's not every species that gets to rule the planet. Plants ruled, lizards ruled, mammals ruled. I say, give the cockroaches a chance.

Christ, you all say apocalypse like it's a bad thing.

Anyway...