In principio
...I created this blog. And I saw that it had great potential. A golden opportunity was staring me in the face. The End of the World! Wow. I never actually thought, for real, that I would be here for the grand finale, but it is starting to look like our little home in paradise might also be one of the upper bleacher seats geopolitically, so to speak, for witnessing mankind's biggest folly. Now, when I say "the end of the world", I am not speaking of the end of all life on the planet Earth. No. I say this because Life is considerably more intelligent and resilient than humans. Nature's capacity to balance needs against resources and make it work for as long as the system is left to function without excessive interference is considerable. Climate change is an example of us having tipped the balance beyond what meteorological and atmospheric conditions have historically been. If we act quickly, we may be able to re-balance the system. But I am not counting on it. Our tr