Entry #2,541

[greygirlbeast]

Supposedly, today will be a little cooler than yesterday. Here in Providence, the temperature reached about 87F. That was Outside. Inside the House, the temperature reached 86F and stayed there for several hours after sunset.

Yesterday, I wrote 1,459 words on "Tidal Forces." I wrote one of the few intentionally frightening scenes I've ever written

Comments

[robyn_ma]

'And the only way out of the problem, in truth, the thing that no one wants to believe, is to bring about a world with drastically fewer people. To stop having babies.'

Zero population growth has been a concept since at least 1693. The biological imperative dies hard.

We are, as Bill Hicks put it, a virus with shoes. The planet is building up an immunity to us, and it'll be over sooner than anyone is ready for.

[greygirlbeast]

We are, as Bill Hicks put it, a virus with shoes. The planet is building up an immunity to us, and it'll be over sooner than anyone is ready for.

A virus with shoes, and cars, and airplanes...and yes.

[egologic]

I think you should go ahead and go to the beach. And see the ocean or pick up plastic or whatever feels right for you. This is not a problem any one individual can solve or fix. This is something that we will all live or die by so it's something we have to do as a nation.

Don't feel guilty. Feel angry. We didn't make the world. Generation upon generation did this. All we can do is our best to change the world. If you can channel guilty feelings to do something constructive, then fine. Otherwise I think anger might be more potent. In either case we need to educate ourselves and each other (and we already know there are those among us who will resist).

We have more of a chance to step back and view the problem than the people who live along the shores of the Gulf of Mexico who've had their livelihoods destroyed. Their problems are more immediate and much more personal.

[greygirlbeast]

Don't feel guilty. Feel angry. We didn't make the world. Generation upon generation did this.

I do not choose to feel guilt, and there's no way I can choose not to feel. And guilt is no less constructive an emotion than anger (and my anger is almost bottomless).

There is no fixing this problem. There will never be effective activism. The population crash will not be voluntary.

[ex_kaz_maho]

Theodore Sturgeon meets Shirley Jackson feel

I am so there! :)

[mellawyrden]

YES and between the massive dead zones being created in the sea, and the rising sea levels, the jellyfish will come and get us, just as I have always nightmared about.

One person could solve this problem, if they can invent some way not to disperse the oil, but to solidify it into one solid mass all the way down to the source. The solution lies in the mind of a new Einstein for the petroleum age. I think a solidifying chemical or organism must exist.

[alvyarin]

I wish I could remember the article title and find it for you (and if I do, I'll link it) but the other day a radio dj was speaking about a recent article in which scientists, based on some study, predicted that men the world over would have less and less potent sperm in the next few generations. Meaning there will be less and less babies. I guess it was a drastic enough reduction in baby-making sperm that the scientists who conducted the study were honestly worried about whether humans would be able to continue populating the earth.

As an animal nut, the sea turtle story upsets me in ways I cannot even begin to express.