World's end
There are a lot of people
who call themselves progressives who don't understand the following:
World: could mean several things, including planet, but
the planet isn't apparently nearing its end. Here, world means
a construct of substances and conditions (stuff and circumstance) draped
over the planet, extending a little below and a little above the surface,
like a slightly inflated baggy, without which the thin surface smear of living
vegetable and animal scum called life on earth cannot survive. This construct
(the scum bag, or eco-system) is not flimsy and can even self adjust considerably,
so the fate of this or that individual species may not be critical at all,
but the over-all construct is more vulnerable than the planet it clings to,
its viability as a life host does ultimately depend on its proportionate
make-up as a construct, and with one cancerous ingredient (the human race
and the human encampment, including all its side effects) already way overgrown
and still growing wildly out of proportion, it - the world
- is very obviously crashing. It's not going to stop crashing without draconian
measures being taken - which aren't being taken - and won't be taken - and
probably should have been taken long ago. And since all of humanity is in
total denial about this - deaf, blind, speechless, and immobile - it's a
done deal.
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