This is the time in almost any Winter when cabin fever and other sorts of depression set in. Never mind that I live in Texas, where true cabin fever cannot exist, and that this year, it has been warmer and milder than I can remember. That warmth may or may not be caused by global warming, but, today I heard about something that is.
A goodly part of Canada's history is tied to the fruitless quest for the Northwest Passage. Many explorers set off through the frozen North in search of it. Many died, their ships trapped in the ice. To Canadian, or pre-Canadian explorers, it was like the Fountain of Youth, or the Grail, or some other Impossible Dream. Now, due to the aforementioned global warming, there is about to be a navigable Northwest Passage. In Summer, at least.
We've only had to ruin the Earth to get it.
It's depressing.
My comfortable notions of the way the world works have been challenged over and over. I think I'm getting old!
ReplyDeleteI heard about the lost world. I suppose we'll have to trash that, too! Those poor people!
ReplyDeleteSomebody will decide to "preserve" them, and visiting and "studying" them will be enough to destroy them.
Boy! I really am down-in-the-mouth today, aren't I?