It is a time of freedom and fear, of Gaia and of borders, of many paths and the widening of
a universal toll road, emptying country and swelling cities, of the public bought into
privacy and the privacy of the public sold into invisible data banks and knowing
algorithms. It is the time of the warrior's peace and the miser's charity, when the
planting of a seed is an act of conscientious objection.
These are the times when maps fade and direction is lost. Forwards is backwards now, so we glance sideways at the strange lands through which we are all passing, knowing for certain only that our destination has disappeared. We are unready to meet these times, but we proceed nonetheless, adapting as we wander, reshaping the Earth with every tread. Behind us we have left the old times, the standard times, the high times. Welcome to the irregular times. In ten years, will historians cite George W. Bush for defending America from the nearly invincible armies of Iraq that were amassed on America's borders, ready to attack at any minute?No, they'll remember George W. Bush as the president who did nothing to stop global warming, which was responsible for tens of thousands of deaths during his first term of office alone. Folks, global warming is not an impending threat. It's a danger that is here, right now, and it's hurting us, right now. Sure, it's not as good for television as an airplane crashing into a big building, but global warming is in fact more deadly than terrorism, by far. At Irregular Times, we'll be bringing you a series of information on the growing global warming crisis. For right now, let's start you off with a really great link. It's to the Climate Data page of the World Meteorological Organization, administered by the United Nations. Step one is to get informed! Return to the Irregular Times Main Page
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