December 30, 2009

• Discovery Channel Is Enough To Give You The Shakes Some Days

  
  TALES FROM THE BRAT FARM

  I swear that between scientific programs into the Mayan calendar and others found around the world predicting the end of TIME..and the others talking about the building natural disasters that could be ready to occur, it’s enough to make you want to find a cave and stay there.

  Sheepie and I spent the day pretty much watching all the programs on Discovery Channel and you could have nightmares just over the one about Yellowstone National Park.  Especially since they show you how the topography of the park has changed over the years (and a great many of them just within the past 20 years) and it’s scary as hell.    I know!  No one can really predict it but think of the consequences of a super-eruption in that location.  World-wide starvation just from the ash in the air.  Do I run out and buy myself some grow lights, seeds, garden soil, fertilizer, osmosis machine (to clean up the water even for drinking) and start stocking up on canned goods, gasoline (for the generator that will be needed) and stock my freezer too?  And what about sterno?  Propane?  The list could go on and on.  Makes you wonder if some of the survivalists don’t have a point.

  Once it was atomic war that they were concerned with; then civil unrest.  Now it’s natural disasters and global warming. Where does it end?

  Not to make light of things or even to ignore it but if something does happen, we are pretty much powerless.  We CAN do things NOW to help lessen the effects of global warming but even scientists disagree on whether or not it may actually be a natural process and we are heading into a new ice age.  Could this actually be part of the process of natural selection of even human beings?  A way to thin the herd, so to speak?  With the sheer numbers of people that would die from the effects and lack of resources available, it would also be a time of cleansing for the earth.  A time when the skies would be able to clear and so would the waterways.  The land could rest and animals recover in some areas while they die or are killed off in others due to the need for food.

  Interesting concept, isn’t it?  It sure made for a lively discussion.  Do you ever indulge in those with your family, spouse, children, neighbors?  Or do you sit there and just think, *Well, that’s interesting!* and go on with your day without giving it another thought?  I think a great many people do that and never really consider that it could happen in our time.  This is the possible legacy we are going to be leaving to our children and their children to survive.  Have we given them the tools?  And just what *tools* are the most likely to be needed?  Think about it.  It’s an interesting process.  Maybe those camping and hiking trips and even planting gardens will be more useful than you ever considered when you DIDN’T do them with your kids.  Maybe now is the time to stock up on spices that will be helpful if the economy or the climate changes and you need things to trade because money won’t mean a thing.

  Oh, scientists keep saying the big eruption of Yellowstone may not take place for 10,000 years but it could happen in 1,000.  There’s no way to tell.  Don’t be an alarmist but don’t take this world for granted, nor your way of life.  Do what you can to help.  Recycle.  Conserve water (shower with a buddy ).  Neuter your cats and dogs to prevent unnecessary births AND deaths due to neglect.  Use those leftovers instead of wasting food.  See what you can do to lessen the burden on this world that is our only home.  Man may one day go to the stars and people other planets but I don’t think it will happen in our lifetime.  So, be kind to the earth and lessen the catastrophic forces perhaps that may be building from our carelessness. 

  Recycle, dammit!  Love you all.
  

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