(Apologies for a 2nd post today; I think the situation warrants it. How do we, as a community, respond to this? To the approx. 480m killed? To a Ballard future collapsing around us? How do we stop from harming ourselves, how can we act intelligently with this like this - on top of all the other horrors? Because this is going to spread of course; the ash on NZ glaciers accelerating melt. What do we do? What do we do as a community?)
Fires in Australia http://www.alansondheim.org/Victoria.jpg (map) http://www.alansondheim.org/Victoria.mp3 (radio) In Pennsylvania, we had house-destroying floods, mine fires, highly polluted air. We went back and explored the area (around Wilkes-Barre/Kingston) last April. I've had my own things destroyed in floods several times, oddly including a storage container in Los Angeles, a closet in Providence, my parents' house in Kingston. But nothing, ever, like this. Reading Ballard, the world's future is spelled out as a scenario for now. Teaching "The Year 3000" back in the early 70s, I was face-to-face with the statistics. I've continue to talk and write and think about this. I was influenced by post-modern geography, and by the collapsed flora of the Carboniferous/Pennsylvanian, which I collected. I grew up negative. I've been following the fires and started interviewing a few people by Skype, people from eastern Australia. I'm trying to make sense of this, trying to find optimism in a situation which I see as the beginning of something problematic, horrifying. (I'll send the interviews out to the lists.) I listened late last night (here) to the radio - a short segment is above. The map gives some indication of locations. There was a report that 480 million animals have died in the fires. It's inconceivable, as is the number. Best, hopefully, Alan _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
