Morning to you, readers. Thanks for coming by for a read this morning.
Now that the planet’s finally recovering from that last ice age, all the glaciers and permafrost finally melting, maybe things can get back to normal, the way things used to be in the good old days. All that ice covering things up has been one hell of an inconvenience.
We’re lucky to live now instead of a while back when the Great Lakes were covered by half-mile of ice. But things are getting better, just as they’ve been getting better all along as the ice receded. Imagine how tough it would have been for all those automotive manufacturers to turn out cars if Detroit had been under half-mile of ice. And those super-highways? Heck, how do you build an Interstate on top of melting ice? Same with all sorts of other things we spent the past few centuries doing.
Sure, things are going to change when things get back to normal. And nobody can guess what those changes are going to be, how a normal climate’s going to manifest itself. Nobody who lived during normal times was writing anything much down about the situation at the time.
But the good news is that the planet goes a longish while between ice ages usually. So once things are back to normal folks living then will have all kinds of time to get used to it. Besides, they’ll be busy as hell working to pay off the debts the people living today are promising they’ll pay. Maybe they’ll find some new ways of doing it in places where the ground’s covered with ice.
Running around screaming and setting our hair on fire isn’t going to keep this planet from doing what it’s going to do. Those glaciers are going to keep receding. No stopping it.
And there aren’t any laws, any human behaviors anyone’s going to change to keep it from doing it. Any more than humans before this ice age came along could have done anything to keep it from happening.
Might as well relax and enjoy it. The forward thinkers will find ways to make money from it, get rich off it one way or another. The stainless steel agers will find ways to exploit whatever’s been hidden under all that ice.
Cultures, religions and civilizations will rise and fall, same as they always have. Everyone will think it’s perfectly normal.
Nothing to get excited about.
Old Jules
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