A coolish, cloudy day here; hope for some rain today or tomorrow. Heat appears on the near horizon, by week's end. No rain before that heat arrives will begin drifting us toward the drought nastiness widespread across the west. Water: fresh, drinkable water will continue to grow as the issue worldwide as this century progresses. The reality is here now in much of the world, not enough water for the poorly planned breeding that continues.
While ancient superstitions (same god, different hat)are the base of the conflict in the Middle East the situation there now really goes back to WATER. Israel is sucking the region dry to continue to grow and the Palestinians are cut off from that water access but continue to breed freely then whine about the sad way their kids live..and die.
Migrations out of the middle east and Africa and meso-America are all driven by over breeding and no decent water to grow crops or drink. The Aral Sea is now a desert, the water that fed it diverted upstream to mostly water cotton, just like in the desert southwest where old, deep groundwater is being sucked dry (mostly hidden behind corporate privacy/distortion claims)to produce more cotton to clothe more people with newer, cooler clothes, that will soon be passed on for more, newer clothes. Instead of the "fabric of our lives" the slogan should be the "fabric of our demise".
Mix in the reality of our warming world and rapidly melting mountain glaciers (Himalaya's)that water the most grossly overpopulated region of the planet, east Asia, and the looming crisis barrels toward us as the news rants about the recent uptick of bombing in the unending thousands of years of stupidity and warfare middle east and gas shortages, and of course, hoarding, caused by poor corporate planning (and denial & greed) in the US. The world warms, ice melts and we worry about petty trivial crap...same as it ever was.
Quiet day of quakes around the world, 5.7 offshore of Japan today's largest. The sun is still a star but not doing anything to potentially zap our world. I did spot Venus in the glow of sunset, but it was too bright to see Mercury or Mars then. Mars was just left of the moon last night, both at the feet of the twins of Gemini, once is was dark enough to see the planet and stars, and lovely. The moon will have moved to up near the heads of the twins tonight; clouds here will likely be an issue.
TrumpVirus death update: 559 fewer Americans around today, another 4,200+ dead this week. Mask mandates are being lifted, vaccinated, don't need to wear a mask in public. The problem: the same dumbasses that won't get vaccinated won't wear a mask and are living in a separate world of lies and denials. So, what seems like a good thing and moving us closer to "normal" is likely to prolong the spread.
Heard this sad tale last night: a restaurant employee, that is completely full of himself, has all the answers, married to a bimbo slut cut from the same cloth, won't get vaccinated...yet, is stoned much of the time and will snort a line of coke up his snout given any opportunity..go figure. It ain't over til it's over, Today On Earth.
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