I don't know - if I can lateralize, or maybe just digress, to something that's been obsessing me, a lot of the trees here are in trouble. Like, maybe 5% just died this spring for no apparent reason. About 30% are in visible trouble, with huge dead patches.
When there's big human trouble that has a long history of human actions, like a Depression, that's one thing - you can have these platitudes about Work and Business.
What happens when suddenly, everyone's trees are dying? I understand that supposedly the crazy bible-thumping core can take this in stride. But I think they're a minority. I think what actually happens if we start getting unavoidable pervasive climate change effects is that...politics becomes less certain. Neither D nor R are *actually* responding to these issues - or a number of others. If those issues suddenly acquire new priority, it may mean...not that Republicans as such aren't plausible, or that, yes, the Demonically attractive Huckabee won't have traction. It's just I think *how* that traction will work will become much more difficult to forecast.
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Date: 2009-07-05 07:53 am (UTC)When there's big human trouble that has a long history of human actions, like a Depression, that's one thing - you can have these platitudes about Work and Business.
What happens when suddenly, everyone's trees are dying? I understand that supposedly the crazy bible-thumping core can take this in stride. But I think they're a minority. I think what actually happens if we start getting unavoidable pervasive climate change effects is that...politics becomes less certain. Neither D nor R are *actually* responding to these issues - or a number of others. If those issues suddenly acquire new priority, it may mean...not that Republicans as such aren't plausible, or that, yes, the Demonically attractive Huckabee won't have traction. It's just I think *how* that traction will work will become much more difficult to forecast.
Late night frothing, maybe.