Glad I bought new pillows (as I can rest easy as I pull the covers over my head)

[ksmith]

This link from Jeff VanderMeer's blog. The first inklings that the avian flu is spreading.

Yes, I understand that Gaia was an hypothesis only (no, it's apparently worked up to theory status) and the timeline is a bit longish, and prophets of doom are a dime a dozen. I know that there is no evidence that avian flu has mutated to a human:human transmission type. Yet.

I just wonder sometimes, what if? What if this is the time when things change, irrevocably and forever? What if this is the time when we learn how fragile it all is, and how powerless we really are?

Yeah, I know--late night melodramatics.

'night.

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Re: Nope.

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

I'm also wondering how any climate changes would affect the level of Lake Michigan because I am close to that.

Yes, this is a concern for me--but I can't hold on to any hope that my summer cottage will survive. At the high point of the 17 year cycle, the first low dune disappears and the water comes up to the base of the stairs/high dune. Should that first dune start eroding again (water has come to within 50 feet of eroding a concrete sidewalk before the house) I'd give the house 50-50. It's on the third dune. But there is a house to the north that is over 100 years old, so there's hope.

But only hope. If the water level of the oceans rises too much, some of that must effect the Seaway. And what that means for Chicago, at the least, is that the gold Coast will be moving... ;^)

You're strong, smart and healthy. That may trump all the skills I've acquired. At the least, I could teach you Critz, and it would be so valuable I'd never see you again, except for swapping new knowledge during the cooler months, because we'd have to spread out over an area.

I've seen this country move like lightning when necessary. I keep hoping there's someone out there who could grab the USA by the lapels and say "We don't have time for this crap. We must do this NOW."

If someone of strength, intelligence and dignity leads, people will follow.

Unfortunately, when overwhelmed and harassed and afraid, 51% will follow an average actor with powerful friends, too...