09-10-2011, 01:26 AM
Can you imagine a more exhilarating time to live in? Now by that I don't mean fun, more like mind boggling.
There have been some real catastrophes in history to be sure, both nature and man created, and they have come right along at a pretty regular rate...., but something is different now.
If we cared to go back, say ten years, we might look at 9/11 as a starting gun of a sort, a point of reference that many say changed the world. At least our world.
But lets take a look back to what came afterward.
How about the wars that event spawned?
Then we have the Sumatran earthquake and tsunami.
Of course we had Katrina, and there's been the usual famines across the Horn of Africa, what was it a few years ago Ethiopia?
But thru all these major events (And I've forgotten very many) there has at least been that moment between them where we paused, took a deep breath and said "What's next?"
Not anymore! Now they come riding upon the back of one another in layers, since the time of the earthquake in Haiti I can't even keep count much less in order!
Chile EQ, New Zealand EQ, Japan EQ tsunami, China EQ floods, Pakistan Floods, Australia fires and floods, and that's not even to mention Europe.
The folks around the globe haven't been sitting on their thumbs either have they?
We have what is called "The Arab Spring" and event so profound it is of a magnitude unlike anything since the time of the reformation, and is still going on.
Have we seen Riots in France, and Greece? Have we seen London wrapped in flames that have not been the like of since the Blitz?
Now we come to our own last few months;
Fire on fire on fire, and flood on flood on flood!
First Texas in the spring (My prospecting partner on the Klamath coughed every day from nearly getting caught in the Texas fires), then New Mexico had their worst fires in decades, now again Texas burns!
What of the floods down the Mississippi this spring and early summer?
The hurricane up the East coast floods all of it in record amounts with an Earthquake to boot, then comes another flooding tropical storm inundating it yet further.
So I ask ya "What's next? Can famine and pestilence be far behind?"
There have been some real catastrophes in history to be sure, both nature and man created, and they have come right along at a pretty regular rate...., but something is different now.
If we cared to go back, say ten years, we might look at 9/11 as a starting gun of a sort, a point of reference that many say changed the world. At least our world.
But lets take a look back to what came afterward.
How about the wars that event spawned?
Then we have the Sumatran earthquake and tsunami.
Of course we had Katrina, and there's been the usual famines across the Horn of Africa, what was it a few years ago Ethiopia?
But thru all these major events (And I've forgotten very many) there has at least been that moment between them where we paused, took a deep breath and said "What's next?"
Not anymore! Now they come riding upon the back of one another in layers, since the time of the earthquake in Haiti I can't even keep count much less in order!
Chile EQ, New Zealand EQ, Japan EQ tsunami, China EQ floods, Pakistan Floods, Australia fires and floods, and that's not even to mention Europe.
The folks around the globe haven't been sitting on their thumbs either have they?
We have what is called "The Arab Spring" and event so profound it is of a magnitude unlike anything since the time of the reformation, and is still going on.
Have we seen Riots in France, and Greece? Have we seen London wrapped in flames that have not been the like of since the Blitz?
Now we come to our own last few months;
Fire on fire on fire, and flood on flood on flood!
First Texas in the spring (My prospecting partner on the Klamath coughed every day from nearly getting caught in the Texas fires), then New Mexico had their worst fires in decades, now again Texas burns!
What of the floods down the Mississippi this spring and early summer?
The hurricane up the East coast floods all of it in record amounts with an Earthquake to boot, then comes another flooding tropical storm inundating it yet further.
So I ask ya "What's next? Can famine and pestilence be far behind?"