Spilling Our Future

PEOPLE WITH TVs might and should be aware that an oil refinery in Siberia recently spilled twenty one thousand tons of diesel fuel into the Ambernaya river, creating yet another environmental disaster for the Arctic, which has already had far more than its fair share. It'll take years to clean up, if ever. the other big issues is of course climate change, that carbon in atmosphere thingie according to which heat is absorbed by the atmosphere, the polar ice caps melt, raising sea level and flooding coastal cities, while teh permafrost in the frozen tundra melts, releasing billions more of carbon from long dead decomposed plants and animals, further accelerating our suicidal rush to extinction. The good news is that if you're a blissfully willfully ignorant american conservative evangelical, you've nothing to worry about, so absorbed are you in bringing back coal, bringing back trump, and awaiting the return of the lord, who two thousand years ago said he'd be right back in a jiffy. When one is awaiting imminent rapture into heaven with another forty grand gross saved souls, Alfred E. Newman, of Mad mag fame, said it best: 'what, me worry" The pandemic is cleaning up the environment, but only until the virus is vanquished, if it ever is. However, the virus has not stopped deforestation, fracking, drilling, pipelining, corporate cattle methaning, and numerous other profit seeking human crimes against nature. The good news is that when the right wing evangelical lord comes rapturing from the sky with a terrible swift sword, the trump supporters will mercifully go away, and the remaining sane can carry on with a cleaner culture, and, lord willing, can begin to clean up Trump's mess/